Do people with epilepsy have intellectual disability?

Epilepsy is a relatively common neurological disorder, especially during childhood. The question of whether pediatric epilepsy will affect children's intelligence is also a concern for many parents, so will pediatric epilepsy affect intelligence?

If the seizures themselves are transient and can be effectively controlled with drugs, the child's intelligence will not be affected. Some children become stupid not because of the drug, but because of persistent epilepsy. However, once epilepsy is reversed, especially when status holders appear, most people with epilepsy have the same intelligence as normal people, and only a few patients are lower than normal.

There are many factors that affect epilepsy patients, first of all, it is related to the ** of epilepsy, some epilepsy is combined with brain dysplasia, and some are congenital metabolic disorders, often combined with mental retardation. Different types of epilepsy have different effects on intelligence, and primary epilepsy such as absence epilepsy and benign partial epilepsy in children often have little effect on intelligence. Infantile spasms: More than 90% of this type of epilepsy have intellectual disability.

The frequency of seizures also has a certain effect on intelligence, and the more frequent the seizures, the greater the incidence of mental retardation. Studies have proved that in pediatric epilepsy, if the average seizure is less than 11 times per year, mental retardation accounts for only 28%; Among children with epilepsy who have daily seizures, mental retardation is as high as 76%. There is also a close relationship between the age of onset and mental development, and the younger the age of onset, the greater the impact on intelligence.

According to the survey, more than 70% of children with onset within the age of one year have mental retardation, while only about 40% of children between the ages of 9 and 15 have mental retardation. A large number of long-term anti-epileptic drugs may affect the intelligence of patients, but the correct and reasonable anti-epileptic ** does not have a large impact on intelligence. If the seizures are quickly controlled or lessened after pediatric epilepsy**, mental development can also be improved.

Continued hypoxia increases neuronal destruction, which may affect intelligence. Mobile software can be downloaded

The mental retardation of children with epilepsy mainly depends on the degree of brain damage, and the important cause of mental retardation in children with epilepsy is its primary disease. Cognitive impairment in children with epilepsy is also related to the type of epilepsy, the frequency and duration of seizures, electroencephalography, and antiepileptic drugs. The types of epilepsy and the factors that affect the intelligence of children with epilepsy mainly include:

Secondary epilepsy, such as encephalitis, birth trauma, or congenital genetic disorders, can almost always lead to intellectual disability; In primary epilepsy, about 1 in 3 can develop intellectual disability.

People with epilepsy do generally have low energy because their brains are not particularly well developed.

Most people with epilepsy do not cause intellectual disability. In the case of grand mal seizures or status epilepticus, the reverse action may lead to hypoxia of brain cells, resulting in edema of brain cells, brain cell dysfunction, and memory loss. Cognitive decline and mental decline.

Yes, because the disease is generally congenital, that is, genetic defects, which can cause our brain's cerebellum to underdevelop.

Whether children's intelligence will be affected by some diseases has always been a matter of great concern to everyone, with the frequent occurrence of epilepsy, everyone is very interested in this problem, experts say that pediatric seizures will have different degrees of intellectual impact on children, which has been medically proven. According to another study, every time epilepsy occurs, patients lose about 2 billion brain cells, of course, the more seizures, the greater the impact on the child's brain cells.

The degree of brain injury in pediatric epilepsy is directly proportional to the number of seizures:

1、？The more seizures a child has, the longer each seizure lasts, the more severe the brain tissue damage and the more severe the intellectual disability.

2. The degree of intellectual disability is also related to the age of onset. For example, in newborns and infants, when brain cells are developing, seizures are more pronounced than in older children.

3、？Different types of seizures have different effects on intelligence, such as neonatal convulsions, infantile spasms, and small motor epilepsy. However, petit mal seizures and type ** benign epilepsy in children have relatively little impact on the intelligence of children.

In response to this problem, experts also made an analysis of three aspects, which shows that the more seizures, the greater the degree of damage to the brain; In addition, the closer the regular, reasonable** time to the child's first seizure, the less likely it is that the child will have intellectual impairment. Therefore, it can be seen that, therefore, I hope that parents can bring pediatric epilepsy patients to have epilepsy as soon as possible.

Urumqi people's epilepsy experts introduced.

1. Epilepsy is more difficult. Many people know that epilepsy symptoms are epilepsy and aggravation. In fact, more than that, every time epilepsy is committed, the irreversible damage to the brain will increase. The difficulty of epilepsy** will increase;

2. Seizures affect the patient's lifespan. Some seizures are sometimes sudden and can cause accidental injury, and individual seizures can lead to status epilepticus, which is life-threatening. This is the aspect where seizures directly affect the patient's lifespan;

3. Epilepsy makes the patient's intelligence decline. Seizures cause damage to the brain, causing memory impairment, decreased intelligence, personality changes, and can lead to an increase in the number of seizures. Some people think that petit mal seizures, psychomotor seizures, and localized seizures are not very harmful to the human body, but this perception is wrong.

Hello, every seizure of epilepsy will damage the brain neuron cells of the human brain once, which directly affects the intelligence and memory of the person, and is a chronic intractable brain disease, which is very harmful to the human body.

Hello, there are several types of epilepsy, there are grand mal seizures, petit mal seizures, and chorea. This gets to a professional hospital to go to **, the sooner the better. This will affect the baby's intellectual and physical development, so it is recommended to pay attention to it.

If epilepsy is diagnosed, the "transmitter vortex epilepsy elimination system" is mainly adopted, and different advanced neuromodulation technologies are selected according to different types of epilepsy patients to inhibit abnormal neuronal discharge and achieve anti-epileptic effect.

When a child develops epilepsy at an early age, the more seizures there are, the more likely it is that it will affect the child's mental development. In addition, if the number of seizures is high, it may affect the patient's personality. In severe cases, it can even lead to psychotic symptoms.

Grand mal seizures are the most common type of seizure and are characterized by sudden loss of consciousness and generalized muscle jerks. If there is no significant history of brain injury in the past, most of them have no obvious intellectual influence, and the prognosis is better. Those who have a young age of onset, are not timely, have a history of severe brain injury in the past, and have multiple seizures that last for a long time and are not easy to control, are prone to serious problems such as mental retardation, and have a poor prognosis.

Grand mal seizures** are complex, with no obvious cause found in about half of children. Possible causes include: febrile convulsions, head trauma, cerebral hypoplasia, neonatal asphyxia and birth injury, encephalitis and meningitis, toxic encephalopathy, inborn metabolic abnormalities, carbon monoxide poisoning, sequelae of kernicterus, etc.

Grand mal seizures are manifested as generalized muscle twitching, upturned eyes, eye fixation, tension in masticatory muscles, half-open mouth, easy bite of the tongue, laryngeal muscle spasm that can cause apnea, bluish face, and loss of urine control. For more related classes, please share with you** (Crazy Life app).

This is considered autism, the child's hearing is normal and should respond to adults or call parents, it is normal to not be able to speak, and some children speak late.

Epilepsy. The damage is concentrated in the damage to the brain. Seizures can cause memory loss and in some cases, mental retardation.

Some patients with a longer history of the disease may have strange behaviors or emotions. It usually manifests as pessimism, negativity, low self-esteem and other emotions. A very small number of patients do not receive good first aid and conditioning measures during seizures, which can cause accidental injury or even death.

In general, intelligence should not be too ideal.

It depends on the situation!

Whether a person with epilepsy has mental retardation depends on the severity of the epilepsy.

If the disease is relatively mild, occasional seizures and each seizure is relatively short, it generally does not have a significant impact on the patient's intelligence, and the seizures can be controlled by reasonable diet, medication, appropriate exercise, and avoiding predisposing factors.

Patients with more severe epilepsy have a particularly high frequency of seizures, and the seizures are relatively long, and symptoms such as loss of consciousness, foaming at the mouth, and convulsions will suddenly appear, which may lead to cerebral hypoxia, brain block, brain dysfunction, etc., which may cause patients to have varying degrees of decline in intelligence.