Failure to feed, cough, SES and knowledge of treatment for uncomplicated malaria and knowledge about the cause of convulsions were found to be statistically significant.
However, not all women in the villages accepted that demons were the cause of convulsions.
In malaria-endemic areas, falciparum malaria is the most common cause of convulsions [ 2].
The authors could not determine the exact cause of convulsions and hemiparesis but suspected the subarachnoid injection of ropivacaine.
The Nakonde people used various types of medicines, for instance, there were medicines that could be used to repel evil spirits as perceived cause of convulsions, however, the main local remedies for treating malaria were, 'namayoka', referred to as cinchona in English, which was taken orally by the children.
In a study in children with malaria and SE (in endemic tropical regions falciparum malaria is a common cause of convulsions in children), maximum peak plasma phenytoin concentrations were achieved more rapidly with intravenous fosphenytoin compared with intravenous phenytoin (0.08 vs 0.37 h) (Ogutu et al. 2003).
Other possible causes of convulsion were considered.
Players used strictly as brawlers, whose very existence in sports dominated by blacks would be the cause of national convulsion, have been more than tolerated.
Influenza infection is recognized as an important cause of febrile convulsions in young children [ 12, 13].
28 Further investigation into the cause of these convulsions showed that it was due to vaccination with one particular brand of trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine and not associated with prior vaccination with the seasonal influenza or 2009 H1N1 pandemic vaccine.
