INDIAN PEDIATRICS 151 VOLUME 52__FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Benign infantile seizures (BIS) arecharacterized by onset of seizures in the first 2years of life, with no known cause andexcellent outcome [1]. Infants with similar features but with a positive family history for infantile epilepsy are labelled as Benign familial infantile seizures (BFIS), which has an autosomal dominant inheritance [3]. Caraballo, et al. [4] reported BIS as the third most common form of epilepsy in the first two years of life. However, not much information is available on this syndrome among Indian infants, although previously it has been pointed out that benign epilepsies are under-represented in Indian studies on epilepsy [5]. We herein report four children with BIS identified prospectively. CASE REPORTS These four children were identified during a 9-month period (April-December, 2012) wherein 75 infants with first seizure were prospectively studied. The variou