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Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures over time. Seizures are episodes of uncontrolled and abnormal firing of brain cells that may cause changes in attention or behavior. Epilepsy occurs when permanent changes in the brain cause it to be too excitable or irritable. As a result, the brain sends out abnormal signals. This leads to repeated, unpredictable seizures. (A single seizure that does not happen again is not epilepsy.)
The body temperature rises above the sustainable environment for the bacteria or virus and occasionally kills it. Unfortunately, fever is also the cause of seizures (called fibrile seizures), especially in children. These types of episodes can occur several times a day and at night, causing nocturnal seizures. A child who has nocturnal seizures due to fever is not in danger of developing epilepsy later in life.