What is benign epilepsy in children?

In children with benign epilepsy refers to occur at a specific age, clinical manifestation and EEG has a certain characteristic, can disappear spontaneously or antiepileptic drug treatment effect better prognosis good kind of epilepsy syndrome.

In children with benign epilepsy has the following characteristics:

(1) occurred between 2~14sui, to 6~10sui than 3 before and after the age of 12 years of rare, usually before the age of 15 stops;

(2) occurs in sleep, to generalized tonic-clonic seizures, or facial tic, salivation, Rale and some as seen, a few attack in awakening state;

(3) attack characteristics for the facial muscles on one side or clonic ankylosing, salivation, a small number of body feeling symptoms, such as the side of the cheek, gum, tongue or lips, feeling abnormal, occasionally can be extended to the face, upper limbs, consciousness, language suspended attack a short time, frequency of occurrences, the nervous system checking without exception, of normal intelligence;

(4) typical of EEG performance for in the temporal area and the central area has double phase amplitude higher of spines wave or Tsim wave, zhihou for slow wave, then Hou for slow wave singles or into cluster appears, background normal, can for side, also can for double side, also can by side steering another side, on both sides of spines wave does not synchronization, spines wave of form and frequency and clinical attack situation does not parallel. For Spike\'s band often associated with age and sleep state, and also to sleep as much, so when the disease was suspected on clinical, sleep induction test should be done.

Clinically, common in children with benign epilepsy with:

(1) of occipital Spike and slow wave associated with benign partial epilepsy in children;

(2) of atypical benign partial epilepsy in children;

(3) on both sides with Spike and slow wave 3 times/second side paroxysmal epilepsy benign transfer of children;

(4) feelings in children with benign epilepsy;

(5) benign neonatal convulsions, etc.