Would fever kill the brain cells?

...and lowering our I.Q. as a result?

I know of a number of cases where children with extremely high temps, over 104 F have suffered brain damage following a prolonged elevated temp. It also can cause the child to have seizures for the rest of their life when they weren't known to have had a seizure disorder prior to the high temp. I know of several cases where the persons IQ was stunted, for lack of a better term, following the incident.

highly doubt it would kill brain cells since fever is just telling u tha ur body is trying to fight off sickness

as of now, there isn't any real clear documentation (research) of a fever causeing death to brain cells; even more so, there isn't any documentation of a patient will develope seizures or epilepsy from febrile seizures. A such event was not caused by the fever but by an organic event.

However, it is the rapid rise of a fever which causes seizures. And due to the seizing event there is a decrease of oxygen to the brain. Continued hypoxic insult to the brain from the lack of oxygen will cause brain damage and possible lower an IQ. Hence the importance of trying to control a rapid rising fever or quick EMS treatment for a seizure.

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