Pediatric epilepsy is a disease that can have a serious negative impact on a child's physical health, and the child will experience undesirable symptoms such as convulsions, vomiting, confusion, and erratic crying and laughing. Therefore, in order to avoid serious damage to the child's health, parents should take the child to the hospital in time once they find that the above symptoms appear in the child's body.
What are the manifestations of pediatric epilepsy?
Epilepsy is clinically characterized by transient muscle twitching, transient abnormalities in consciousness, sensation and emotion. It is mainly caused by the imperfect development of the child's nervous system and the stimulation of the cerebral cortex to produce excessive abnormal discharge. During convulsions, most children are unconscious, their eyes are closed or half-open, their eyes are turned up, their teeth are closed, the corners of their mouth are twitching, their heads are tilted back, their limbs are repeatedly flexed and extended, their lips are bruised, and their bodies are stiff, which lasts for more than ten seconds to several minutes.
Epilepsy is a chronic disease, and pediatric epilepsy is diverse, with different clinical manifestations. Choose the appropriate and appropriate **, the child follows the doctor's instructions to take the medicine on time and in accordance with the amount, and the vast majority of the child's condition is controlled or**.
The difference between pediatric epilepsy and ** epilepsy
The symptoms of pediatric epilepsy will gradually evolve as the brain grows, and the differentiation of nerve tissue like the roots of a tree will gradually form a network of connections between nerve cells. The diffusion and limitations of electrophysiology in pediatric epilepsy will also cause the symptoms to evolve due to the maturity of these structures, but **Epilepsy symptoms are more stereotyped than those in children.
There are many causes of pediatric epilepsy, and they are age-related, including congenital malformations of brain development, congenital central nervous system infection, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, hereditary metabolic abnormalities, head trauma, constitutional (hereditary) cerebrovascular diseases, brain tumors, etc.
The type of epilepsy in children is specifically related to age. Different ages have different types of epilepsy, and one type of epilepsy may evolve into another type of epilepsy due to the growth and differentiation of the brain, such as absence epilepsy is specific to children, ** there will be no absence seizures.
The same patient with pediatric epilepsy can present with various types of seizures, for example, some patients may present with atypical absence syndrome, atonic type, muscle convulsion type, etc., in addition to generalized tonic and stoic seizures.