Rotavirus is a common cause of benign, self-limiting gastroenteritis in childhood. 1,2 Apart from dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, several neurological complications have been described in rotavirus infections in recent years, such as encephalitis, cerebellitis and a condition described as benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis (CwG). [3][4][5][6] A direct viral pathomechanism has been postulated since the virus was first detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient suffering from encephalitis in 1995 4 and in subsequent reports. 6,7 CwG was first described in 1982 by Morooka et al. in patients who presented with convulsions associated with mild gastroenteritis without fever or laboratory abnormalities. 3 The definition of CwG was further elaborated in 1992 by Komori et al. as convulsions in