Table 1. Proportion of 78 AES cases exhibiting different symptoms.
Type of symptoms | Percent children exhibiting symptoms |
---|---|
Loss of interest in play | 75 |
Feeling/appearing sick | 60 |
Unconsciousness | 41 |
Vomiting | 41 |
Upward rolling of eye ball | 41 |
Convulsions (Focal seizures) | 79 |
Swelling over face & limbs | 34 |
Muffled heart sound | 34 |
Tachycardia disproportionate to fever | 31 |
Pallor | 31 |
Respiratory distress | 21 |
Abdominal distension | 14 |
Headache | 10 |
Body ache | 31 |
Constipation. | 3 |
Hepatomegaly | 69 |
Spleenomegaly | 21 |
Extensor planter reflex | 97 |
Hypertonia | 14 |
Hypotonia | 6 |
Lymphadenopathy | 3 |
Papilloedema | 3 |
Hypotension | 14 |