What should I do if my child suddenly has epilepsy?

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.

Epilepsy should start from the mechanism of seizures, common epilepsy methods include drugs, surgery, etc. Medications can control seizures by reducing brain excitability, but medications** generally require long-term medication and are also larger***. And not all people with epilepsy are candidates for surgery**.

Seizures are caused by abnormal firing of neurons, and seizures can only be avoided if the damaged neuronal cells are repaired.

Don't panic, pay attention to the seizure when your child has a seizure, and then go to the hospital for treatment.

From the analysis of traditional Chinese medicine, the pathogenesis of epilepsy considers the following aspects:

1. Congenital factors: improper maintenance of pregnancy and childbirth, damage to fetal qi, or uneven dirty qi, or reverse qi and disorder, dysfunction of viscera, spleen and kidney deficiency and phlegm, and liver qi and wind.

2. Phlegm turbidity and endogenous: excessive consumption of alcohol, wine and sweetness, damage to the spleen and stomach, loss of spleen health, accumulation of dampness and phlegm; Or the qi is depressed and turns into fire, the fire evil refines into phlegm, and the phlegm accumulates inside, and when it encounters a trigger, the phlegm is turbid or reversed with the qi, or because of the flame, or moves with the wind, blinding the mind and mind, and it becomes an epilepsy syndrome.

3. Unclean diet: insects hinder the brain, and the wind is caused by insects, which is also the cause of epilepsy.

Fourth, the seven emotional disorders: the main responsibility is for panic, sudden panic, resulting in qi reversal, and then damage the viscera, liver and kidney damage, resulting in yin and yang and phlegm and wind, spleen and stomach damage.

You can refer to it according to the patient's situation, and it is recommended to be timely**.

Epilepsy in young children is not absolutely genetic, and there are other predisposing causes, as follows: congenital dysplasia; Birth trauma is a common symptomatic epilepsy in infancy**, and cerebral contusion during childbirth, edema, hemorrhage, and infarction can also lead to local cerebral sclerosis and cerebral palsy.

For children with epilepsy, patients should go to a specialist in a regular hospital in time. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and MRI should be done in a timely manner. And according to the test results in time, the symptoms will be corrected**.

**During the period, it cannot be intermittent, and after the condition is stable, follow the doctor's instructions to increase or decrease the medication. **During the period, I will go to the hospital regularly for follow-up visits to detect EEG and brain MRI. Blood tests.

Drug concentration: liver and kidney function, trace elements. Usually try to give your baby less food, containing potassium and zinc. The diet should be light, less spicy, and less salty.

Try to drink less water and supplement magnesium, protein, and calcium.

Go to a bigger hospital and have a good check-up, if it's light, you can get it well.

Epilepsy, commonly known as "epilepsy" or "epilepsy", is a chronic disease in which neurons in the brain suddenly and abnormally discharge, resulting in transient brain dysfunction.

Epilepsy in children**:

1. When epilepsy patients suffer from epilepsy, they should not be anxious, but should choose the right hospital, which is the step of epilepsy, and it is also very important, so patients should be cautious when choosing a hospital.

2. Then the epilepsy patient should have a comprehensive examination, to understand the severity of his condition so far, and at the same time, the epilepsy patient should also have a comprehensive understanding, so that after understanding their own condition, they can choose the best method according to their own condition, so that they can help the patient choose a more suitable method for their own condition, and then they will start to carry out the first method.

3. Epilepsy patients should follow the doctor's instructions to carry out the process accurately, and at the same time, they should strengthen the care of the patient's condition, which is also a part of the disease, and let the patient correct some bad habits to avoid the existence of these bad habits, which will make the epilepsy patient's condition reversed, and at the same time, the patient should maintain a good attitude.

Epilepsy in children**:

Epilepsy in children can be treated with medications, surgery, neuromodulation, etc. There is no clear ** preferred drug for epilepsy**, for epilepsy caused by a clear **, such as focal cortical dysfunction, cerebrofacial angiomatosis, early surgery**, such secondary epilepsy, the possibility of self-healing is extremely low, and brain function can be further compensated for development after early surgery**.

There are pros and cons to drug ** epilepsy, mainly the impact on brain function and the impact of drugs on physical development, for patients with frequent and severe seizures, drugs are recommended, and for benign epilepsy with low seizure frequency and mostly nocturnal seizures, the use of drugs can be carefully considered.

Some childhood epilepsy is benign epilepsy, such as febrile seizures, benign childhood myoclonus, BECT, and most childhood absence epilepsy, which can heal spontaneously with age; Some secondary childhood epilepsy: such as focal cortical malformation, cerebrofacial angiomatosis, and some nodular sclerosis, etc., can be operated**.

Hope it helps.

Because children's tissues and organs are very weak, and their functions have not yet developed perfectly, it will lead to the absorption, metabolism and other aspects of antiepileptic drugs are different from those of adults, so in the process of medication, we must be flexible according to these characteristics, to emphasize individualization, the use of comprehensive, so that the symptoms and root causes can be treated.

1. The number of doses given to children with epilepsy must be determined according to the characteristics of the drug and the characteristics of the patient's seizures.

2. Choose safe, inexpensive and inexpensive drugs according to the type of seizures in the child, but be sure to go to a regular hospital.

3. In the first process, the drug concentration must be monitored regularly, and the drug dosage should be adjusted slowly.

4. Under normal circumstances, the drug can not be changed or interrupted at will, and experts propose that the medication should be taken until the seizures are completely controlled for 2 to 3 years, and the EEG is normal, and then the dose can be slowly reduced and stopped.

5. Regarding the dosage of drugs, it is necessary to start the medication with the lowest usual amount, and then slowly increase it to the ideal control of seizures, and there are no serious toxic side effects.

Introduction: Epilepsy is a relatively common disease in neurology, and epilepsy is a disease that often has many sudden situations, and once it has a sudden seizure, it is a great threat to health. And when a child has a sudden epilepsy, most parents will be in a hurry, panic, and don't know what to do.

Parents must learn more about the prevention of epilepsy and the symptoms so that their children will not be harmed. So the topic I want to share today is, what should parents do when their children have sudden epilepsy?

1. What are the dangers of epilepsy?

Because epilepsy is a disease that can be reversed, and if the patient is not properly administered, it is very easy to damage the nerve cells of the human brain, and in severe cases, it will affect the patient's intelligence and appearance. In addition, people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, if they have sudden epilepsy, they are likely to induce stroke, coronary heart disease, angina, cerebral infarction, and impaired heart function. Epilepsy is also hereditary, and it is likely that the next generation will also suffer from epilepsy.

Moreover, epilepsy can pose a very big life-threatening threat to patients with intracranial tumors. Some patients with epilepsy will be discriminated against and treated unfairly by the outside world, which will cause patients to have some mental pressure, low self-esteem, anxiety, and most patients will be confused and delirious during seizures, which can easily lead to accidents.

2. What should parents do when their child has a sudden seizure?

Parents should keep their children's breathing unobstructed and not blindly take medication. When the seizures stop, give the person plenty of rest. And when the child has a seizure, you must use some emergency measures to avoid the child biting the tongue, you can use some gauze or use a toothbrush to hold the tongue down to prevent the tongue from biting.

And at the onset of the disease, let the child lie flat as much as possible, tilt the head to one side, the main purpose is to let the child breathe smoothly, quickly put some soft things under the head, and unbuckle the collar to prevent phlegm from entering the trachea and causing pneumonia. And when the disease is attacking, try to hold the patient as much as possible to avoid falling and injuring the head and body.

At this time, I will choose to protect the child's tongue, not let the child bite things, and will also give 120 dozen in time.

You will call 120 in time, you will seek the help of a professional doctor, you can stuff a towel in your child's mouth, don't be too nervous, too panicked.

At this time, I will stuff a cloth in the child's mouth to prevent the child from biting his tongue, and secondly, I will take the child to the hospital for an examination urgently.

Keep an eye on your child until the convulsions stop. Hold the person to prevent falling, then lay the person flat on the floor. Untie the patient's garment, keep the breathing smooth, and turn the head to the side to prevent saliva and other saliva from flowing into the respiratory tract.

Carefully observe the site of the seizure, whether the patient is conscious, and record the duration of the seizure. If the person does not get better after more than ten minutes of ticing, seek medical attention immediately. After the seizure stops, the patient should be comforted, the patient's forehead prohibition emotion should be eliminated, and when the patient has a seizure, a hard object can be forcibly stuffed into the patient's mouth, the patient can be suppressed, and the patient can be helped to take the medicine and drink water.

If the patient has frequent seizures and the time is relatively long, it is a critical condition and needs to be rescued in time. The above is for you to analyze some of the manifestations of epilepsy at the onset of the disease, if the above symptoms appear, you need to pay attention to fatigue, if you still can't confirm, please seek medical attention in time, so as not to delay your condition. Such as satisfied.

Pediatric epilepsy is a relatively complex nervous system disease, mainly manifested as muscle twitches caused by abnormal discharge of the cerebral cortex, consciousness, feeling, emotion and a series of symptoms and signs, often endangering the growth and development of children, should be early, it mainly includes drugs, immunotherapy, symptomatic, surgery.

1) Medication**: It is the most common way**, and the choice of drugs is different according to the symptoms of epilepsy in children. Carbamazepine:

Preferred drug for petit mal seizures and muscle twitches. Phenytoin: Phenytoin should be used when children have generalized muscle spasms, but children may experience gingival hyperplasia and gastrointestinal reactions, which will be relieved after stopping the drug.

Phenobarbital: is a broad-spectrum antiepileptic drug indicated for various muscle spasticity states. Sodium valproate:

It is mainly aimed at absence seizures in children, but this drug is easy to damage liver function, and liver function needs to be tested during medication. Clonazep loop: intravenous to relieve persistent epileptic states.

2) ****: Solve the causes of pediatric epilepsy, such as brain tumor resection and hemangioma resection.

3) Immunity**: Clinical studies have proven that giving certain immune boosters can delay seizures.

4) Surgery**: If the drug ** is ineffective and the seizures are frequent, surgery to remove the lesion can be considered.

When a child has a seizure, first of all, parents should keep calm and not be overly nervous, observe the symptoms and duration of the child's seizures, and record the manifestations of the child's seizures if conditions permit, so as to facilitate the diagnosis of the doctor in the later stage. Ensure the safety of your child's surroundings when the child is sick and wait for the child's seizure to end.

The sooner the epilepsy is controlled, the better the effect, and the less harmful it is to the patient, so after the child's seizure is accepted, it should be treated as soon as possible, and the child's seizure symptoms should be explained in detail to the doctor, and then cooperate with the doctor.

During the period, the child should be told to take the medicine on time, go to the hospital regularly for reexamination, if the child's condition is stable, and then there will be no more seizures, do not stop the drug on your own, you should timely feedback the child's condition with the doctor, and change the ** plan if necessary.

There are many causes of seizures in children, and the specific cause of the child's seizures should be found on the eve of **, so that the condition can be better cured.

Your child has epilepsy. If you commit it, you should mainly take drugs ** to control seizures in time. Surgery can also be carried out depending on the situation**, **methods include resection of epileptic lesions, palliative **, etc., strengthen nutrition, and regular reexamination.

If a child has epilepsy, he or she should go to a regular neurology department** and give the child 24 hours of EEG monitoring. It is also necessary to determine the type of seizure of epilepsy and choose the appropriate epilepsy medication for your child's oral administration. Usually in life, parents should not have too much mental pressure on their children, do not beat and scold their children, and provide psychological counseling to children, as children's emotional tension and excitement will also induce seizures.