Had the scariest moment with my little lad, hes 13 months old and has had a bit of chesty cough on and off for 3 weeks, with a bit of a fever to boot. He also had his 12 month jabs also, so we put the fever down to that, plus he was still nice and active. The last few days hes been getting a bit more aggitated and grumpy and the fever had been more regular. I grabbed him today as he was crying, and as he started to nod off i felt him burning up, hes heart rate also started creeping up at the same time, within minutes he tensed up and was shivering and jerking and I really started to get mega worried and phoned the ambulance, he basically had a febrile convulsion ie a fit, due to the temperature hitting 40c and the body struggling to cope with it.Apparently it can be common in very young children, but if it lasts longer than 5 mins then you need to get the ambulance down ASAP.
The paramedics came and gave him a nebuliser and he started to settle down, they took us to the hospital and after a dose of antibiotics and neurofen he started to get better quite quickly. Annoyingly we didnt go to the doc when he had the cough and cold, and in the end it turns out it was a chest infection.
But it was simply the scariest thing ever, ive seen a lot in life, i was by my brothers bed when he passed, but this fear about the lad was way worse somehow.