What is benign familial neonatal convulsions?

On this disease rarely seen, is a higher penetrance autosomal dominant hereditary disease. For several generations in his family for a number of people have seizures occur in the neonatal period, but then the spirit and neural development is no exception.

Many diseases from the 2-3 days after the birth of this disease, characterized by generalized tonic-clonic or episodes, eventually become tonic attack, attack dozens of times a day, for a few seconds at a time to dozens of seconds. At the onset of EEG without the special performance. Generally disappear spontaneously in 2-4 week, some 14% can develop in patients with epilepsy.

Many types of neonatal convulsion, except for the diagnosis should be aware of when other causes of neonatal convulsion. Antiepileptic drug available for this disease in the episode, but does not advocate long-term use.