Affecting children with infantile spasms, please?

Infantile spasms are characteristic of the period of an epilepsy in infants. Earlier age of onset, have a special form of convulsion, EEG to peak rhythm disorder. Poor prognosis of this disease, intellectual and physical development significantly diminish after the disease.

Pathogenesis of infantile spasms in less than 1 year old, 3-7 maximum number of months of onset, high incidence of boys than girls. This disease causes include congenital developmental disorders, metabolic disorders, birth trauma, birth trauma and infection of the nervous system after, 50% cause could not be found in children.

Infantile spasms body muscles were attack suddenly strong convulsions, head and body forward, upper limb protraction, bent inward, lower limbs bent to the abdomen, eyes squint, or turned on, with disturbance of consciousness. Attack time is short, 1-2 seconds eased, but again, tics, forming a series of attacks, at least 2~3 times, up to dozens of times and even more. Before the attacks are often accompanied by a cry of children with or without independent laugh, pale or red, extreme fatigue, sleepiness after the attack. Ranged attack 1~10 daily times, than a night attack during the day, morning and afternoon attacks, some children just to sleep or wake up shortly after easy attack, sometimes sudden sounds can also cause seizures.

Intellectual and physical development of children with significant backward after disease, facial expression slack, and indifference, not laughing, not identification, not watching, vertical head, standing, walking is affected, language development lag behind.

Typical attacks of infantile spasms are mostly less than 1 year and a half stops, most into Grand Mal or small attacks. Effect the heavier long course on intelligence. Such as by natural or Dysplasia, congenital metabolic disorders, neonatal asphyxia caused by intracranial hemorrhage is more heavily on intelligence.

Although the prognosis is poor, serious impact on the intellectual, but after hormone treatment can control symptoms, have a certain effect on mental recovery. So parents find out children\'s recurrent seizures, early diagnosis and treatment, mitigate the impact of intelligence to prevent brain injury and brain infection occurs in children.