Psychomotor epilepsy is characterized by paroxysmal movement disorders at the same time with mental disorders of epilepsy. About half of the children with no exact cause of this disease. In families of children with a history of convulsions, abnormal EEG and high rates of psychiatric history; in before the age of 4 with high fever in children with convulsive history, their age of onset, and the smaller, longer time of onset, recurrent attacks into a greater likelihood of psychomotor epilepsy; in addition, born with brain damage, a history of head trauma after birth can also be caused by this disease.
Few seconds before the disease attacks children with a sense of fear, illusion can occur in children with large, sweating, abdominal pain, and so on. And then there is a loss of consciousness or in a hazy State, repeat stereotypical actions such as groping, shrug, shaking head, circling, such as chewing, protrusion of the tongue, may also be abnormal sense of feeling such as limbs numbness, pharyngeal obstruction, few abnormal auditory. Attacks occur after fatigue, mental confusion, drowsiness, headache, vomiting, transient aphasia, etc. The seizure frequency 1 times a day, or most, attack interval ranging from 1st to 3 weeks, little more than 1 month. The disease continued to attack up a few days to more than a month, characterized by confusion, can also appear as a long repeating stereotyped movements, foreign territories lost response, learning, memory and loss of judgment, act strange, continuous, or at the same time with grand mal epilepsy performance.
After repeated attacks of the disease can affect intelligence and character, so that memory and comprehension impairment. Therefore, we should actively prevent brain injury in children, prevention of convulsion occurs repeatedly. Should be sent to the hospital to check if there are such manifestations in children with EEG, timely diagnosis, effective treatment, rules, can improve the cure rate.
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