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9.3.11

Affecting children with psychomotor epilepsy do?

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.

Leon did have an impact on the children with epilepsy?

Grand mal epilepsy is one of the most common attack type, characterized by the sudden loss of consciousness and generalized muscle twitch. This type if the past history of significant brain injury, no significant intellectual influence the prognosis good. Where the age of onset with severe brain injury, treatment is not timely, the past history, there are many long duration of the attack and difficult to control, easily accompanied by serious problems such as mental retardation, prognosis is poor.


Grand mal epilepsy etiology is more complex, about half of the pathogenic causes of children obviously could not be found. Possible pathogenic factors: febrile convulsion, head trauma, brain Dysplasia, neonatal asphyxia and birth trauma, encephalitis and meningitis, congenital metabolic, toxic encephalopathy after exceptions, after carbon monoxide poisoning, sequelae of kernicterus.

Grand mal epilepsy manifested in children with systemic muscle twitch, eyes, eyes fixed on, masticatory muscle tension, mouth half open, easy to bite his tongue and laryngeal muscle spasm can be caused by apnea, blue in the face and water out. Attack continued for about 5 minutes, after the attack were fatigue, headaches, vomiting and sometimes whole body muscle pain, and so on. Ranged attack attack several times a day or a few years time. Grand mal epilepsy in awake, during sleep, and some irregular.

Parents and caregivers to be taken to prevent brain injury in children, avoid the infection of the brain, when addressing and preventing febrile convulsion fever, prevention of gas poisoning in winter. If jaundice does not return the neonatal period or in children increased, active treatment, prevent kernicterus and causes grand mal epilepsy. Such as the body appears to convulsions in children, such as delirious immediately to hospital for treatment, check the EEG to confirmed, such as epilepsy should be timely and effective treatment, reducing the number of attack and duration, mitigate the effects on intellectual development in children.

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.