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DOE child get febrile seizures? Thinking about my daughter entering 3K next year and how the schools handle it.

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Hey there. My daughter is prone to febrile seizures which are almost always asymptomatic beside the high fever so I can never predict if she's sick or not, the seizure being the first sign of illness. I am increasingly anxious about putting her in some sort of public 3k or Pre-K situation when she turns 3 next year because of them. Does anyone else's kid get these, and if so, if they've happened while they're at preschool, how did the school handle it?

On that note, dude, it becomes so anxiety inducing to take your kid out after they're sick when these happen because I'm scared of them happening in public (one of them did, in fact, at IKEA lol). Anyway just needed to vent about this. It feels like it's especially hard to raise her immune system here. I grew up in The Bronx and I always a pretty sickly child myself.

Posted Sep 8, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

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