Abstract
For the last three years the authors noticed the fact that patients of infantile spasms exhibited a marked but transient improvementof epileptic status concurrent with infection of exanthema subitum.
In all three cases, epileptic fits disappeared in 2 or 3 days afterfever-rising of exanthema subitum, and such favorable condition continued for 1.5 to 7 months afterwards.
By contrast, another 18 cases with infantile spasma, suffered from high fever caused by acute pharyngitis or acute pneumonia, showed no desirable improvement of convulsive episode.
It is difficult to interpret the observation here reported.
The relation between infantile spasm and exanthema subitum is briefly discussed.
