Epilepsy is a common disease, and the incidence of neurological diseases is second only to cerebrovascular disease. Epilepsy is not a specific disease, but a syndrome of brain dysfunction caused by multiple etiologies. In particular, episodic, sudden, and transient brain dysfunction caused by repeated over-firing of brain neurons. Epilepsy is high in infancy and childhood, and the incidence gradually decreases in childhood and adolescence, and then increases at the age of 55. About 50% of epilepsy cases are in children.
Emphasis is placed on the golden age of epilepsy treatment in children
Pay attention to the "golden period" of infant and young child treatment, the development of children's language is mainly completed before the age of 5, if the epileptic encephalopathy is not controlled before the age of 4 to 5, the child may lose the opportunity for language development or language development is seriously impaired. Parents should carry out formal and reasonable treatment in a timely manner to reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of epileptic encephalopathy on the normal development of children's brains as much as possible.
Early manifestations of epilepsy in children
Infant performance
Epilepsy in infancy is characterized by unconscious chewing, drooling, blinking, and swallowing. Parents generally tend to overlook these subtle abnormal changes in response. Parents generally tend to overlook these subtle abnormal changes in response. Some children with epilepsy also have symptoms such as sucking exercises, nausea, or abdominal pain, vomiting, and loss of consciousness, but there are also children with epilepsy who have symptoms such as random groping, walking, running, kicking, nonsense, smiling, or laughing.
Adolescents and children
Children and adolescents, if there is a sudden occurrence of movement abort, gaze, called should not, may have blinking, but basically not accompanied by or accompanied by mild motor symptoms, the end is also sudden, usually lasting 5-10 seconds. This condition is considered as absence seizures, which are a type of epilepsy.
Partial seizure manifestations
Some patients, suddenly appear impaired consciousness, both eyes are dazed, sometimes appear some unconscious movements, such as repeated smacking, chewing action, or swallowing action, repeated rubbing of hands, undressing, unbuttoning, or aimless self-talk, wandering, etc., these may be the manifestation of complex parts of epilepsy seizures, but also the most common type of adult epilepsy.
Most children with epilepsy can control seizures or even be cured through treatment, and can grow up happily like other children. If timely and standardized treatment and control are not obtained, it will seriously affect the growth and development of the child and the physical and mental health, consume the child's will, hit the child's self-esteem, and cause some irreversible damage. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the early manifestations of children's epilepsy, pay attention to the "golden period" of children's epilepsy treatment, let children's epilepsy be treated as early as possible, effectively control epileptic seizures, and let the "charged little angel" return to the life of healthy people as soon as possible.