What are the characteristics of benign epilepsy in children

Hello, the manifestations of different types of epilepsy are also different, the common grand mal seizures are generally manifested as: sudden loss of consciousness, falling to the ground, tilting the head, eyes upturning, foaming at the mouth, bluish complexion, clenching teeth or tongue, some accompanied by incontinence, can not recall the onset process after the seizure, and the whole body is painful and weak. Petit mal seizures are characterized by a brief loss of consciousness, an abrupt interruption of speech activity, a holding in the hand that falls to the ground, eyes looking directly or staring, and continuing the same activity after the seizure.

Localized seizures of epilepsy present as local or one limb twitch that can extend throughout the body if the abnormal discharge of the brain expands.

Psychomotor seizures: (also known as complex partial seizures), which can manifest as sudden, confused, and irregular and uncoordinated movements (eg, sucking, chewing, seeking, shouting, running, struggling, etc.). The patient's actions are unmotivated, aimless, blind, and impulsive, and the seizures last for hours, sometimes for days.

The patient has no memory of the seizure.

1. Grand mal seizures: about 50 of seizures, mostly around 1 year old or 14?Between the ages of 17.

Grand mal seizures can be divided into four stages: (1) Premonitory stage: dizziness and stomach upset.

2) Tonic phase: sudden loss of consciousness, falling to the ground, head tilting, limb rigidity, due to diaphragm spasm, the patient makes a "lamb"-like roar, the face is blue, the pupils are dilated, and the breathing is paused, which lasts for tens of seconds. (3) Clonic phase:

Rhythmic twitching of the muscles of the whole body, often biting the tongue, foaming at the mouth, and may be accompanied by incontinence, which usually lasts 1-3 minutes. (4) Recovery period: It generally takes dozens of minutes to wake up, and the patient cannot recall the seizure process, and the whole body is in pain and fatigue.

During the recovery period, some patients were irritable, running and screaming, beating people and destroying things.

2. Petit mal seizures: petit mal seizures of dementia epilepsy, also known as absence seizures, are typically manifested by the patient's transient loss of consciousness, most of the complete loss of consciousness, occasional consciousness impairment is shallow, has some understanding of the surroundings, and can hear questions, but cannot. Impairment of consciousness is characterized by transient and frequent occurrence.

3. Psychomotor seizures: On the background of consciousness disorders, there are often delusions, hallucinations and automatisms. Because it is mostly caused by temporal lobe lesions, it is also called temporal lobe epilepsy.

The age of onset is later in all types of epilepsy, and the first onset is usually around the age of 20. About 40% of patients have an aura at the onset of the disease, feeling stomach upset, auditory hallucinations, smell hallucinations, dizziness, nausea, fear, etc.

Pediatric 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.

Symptoms of epilepsy:

2. There are two manifestations of petit mal seizures, one is absence petit mal seizures, and the second is myoclonus petit mal seizures. Minor seizures of absence are manifested as stunned, unable to breathe, speech interrupted, and if there is something in the hand, it will fall, and the duration is about tens of seconds. Myoclonus petit seizures are characterized by transient myoclonus of the face, upper extremities, and neck.

3. Localized seizures: transient convulsions or numbness on one side of the face or one side of the body. Sometimes these tics extend from the ends of the limbs to the opposite side.

4. Psychomotor seizures, similar to small seizures of absence seizures, but they will last for a long time, hallucinations, delusions, and some unconscious actions such as chewing, sucking, etc.

The onset of SPAN epilepsy is mainly in the elderly and childhood, and there are many ** during this period that may induce epilepsy. The early symptoms of benign epilepsy in children have a clear genetic predisposition, more males than females, and there is a clear correlation with age, mostly seizures during the age of 2 to 14 years, with a peak around the age of 9, and remission or disappearance before the age of 16, which does not have much impact on the child's later life. /span

Symptoms of the pre-epileptic form of SPAN are typical, such as transient rigidity or clonic jerks of the unilateral facial muscles, oropharyngeal muscles, and lips. It is often accompanied by somatosensory symptoms, and some children have benign epilepsy symptoms that may progress to tonic-clonic seizures. Most of these seizures are sleep-related, with more than half of them occurring only during sleep and during the day being drowsy or resting.

Patients are prone to sleep occurrences. /span

Benign epilepsy in children refers to a type of epilepsy syndrome that occurs at a specific age, has certain characteristics of clinical manifestations and electroencephalogram, can relieve itself or has a good effect of antiepileptic drugs, and has a good prognosis. Seizures in children with benign epilepsy are closely related to age, and generally speaking, the number of seizures decreases after the child, and by the age of 15 or so, it is basically cured. The anti-epileptic drugs have ***, if the number of seizures in children with benign epilepsy is not much, they can temporarily do not need to use the drug**.

However, if the number of seizures is high, the use of antiepileptic drugs** to reduce the number of seizures and reduce the symptoms is sufficient, because the prognosis of the disease is good and it will basically recover after puberty.

There are many causes of seizures, so please pay more attention and check it in time to get epileptic seizures.

1. Improper medication: Whether it is idiopathic epilepsy or symptomatic epilepsy, if the drug is abruptly stopped or the antiepileptic drug is arbitrarily changed during the process of epilepsy, it is easy to lead to the occurrence of status epilepticus. In patients who develop status epilepticus, about 1 in 4 are caused by abrupt interruptions** or random changes to antiepileptics.

2. Caused by other diseases: mainly caused by infection, such as external fever, pneumonia, sepsis, dysentery, urinary system infection, etc., toxic encephalopathy; It is also not uncommon to be caused by traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, cerebrovascular disease, etc., and is one of the most common causes of persistent seizures.

3. Other causes: Food poisoning, poisoning, alcohol consumption, overwork, pregnancy, childbirth, etc. are common causes of status epilepticus. In addition, water and electrolyte imbalances, and inborn metabolic abnormalities can also lead to the occurrence of status epilepticus.

Epilepsy is recurrent and episodic, and if these two characteristics and the symptoms of seizures are present, the diagnosis of epilepsy is basically confirmed. Epilepsy is a chronic central nervous system disease, but with the development of medicine, after clarifying the location of the nerve center to which the neuron of abnormal discharge belongs, it is completely possible to completely eliminate seizures by targeting**. It is recommended that patients go to a regular hospital for examination as soon as possible**.

The problems that epilepsy patients should pay attention to in their daily life are:

Optimism: Stress, pessimism and disappointment have been shown to promote seizures. Most people with epilepsy are pessimistic and disappointed due to long-term anti-behavior and discrimination by some people in society.

With a good psychological state, actively cooperating with doctors, and insisting on long-term **, the vast majority of patients can basically live the same life as normal people.

Combination of work and rest: excessive physical or mental work can induce epilepsy, epilepsy patients must pay attention to the combination of work and rest, schools and society should not be too demanding for the learning of children with epilepsy, and adult patients should not be overly nervous and fatigued in learning, so as not to make seizures.

Adequate sleep: Lack of sleep can easily induce epilepsy, so it is important to ensure adequate sleep and do not stay up late, especially for children with epilepsy.

Eating modestly: Eating a full meal or starvation and drinking plenty of water at one time can trigger epilepsy. Therefore, it is necessary to be properly nutritious, eat modestly, and avoid being too full or hungry or drinking a lot of water at one time. In addition, drinking strong tea and eating foods that contain a lot of caffeine, such as chocolate, can cause seizures.

Epilepsy is a chronic condition, and medications can improve symptoms in the early stages of the disease. However, after taking the drug for a long time, the patient will feel that the effective time of the drug will be shortened, and once the drug is stopped, the condition will be **, and even become difficult to control, and the patient's body will also have a certain ***. It is recommended that you go to a regular epilepsy hospital as soon as possible for a detailed examination**, long-term seizures of epilepsy will bring many complications to the body, and if the patient can not be timely** or **improperly, it will lead to several conditions of the condition.

Therefore, if you want to get rid of epilepsy, timely** is the key.

The only basis for confirming the disease is to confirm the diagnosis in combination with other aspects of examination work and medical history data, and the more common examination items are as follows:

1. MRI examination: This examination item has a strong soft tissue resolution ability, which can make full use of the signal emitted by hydrogen protons contained in the human body to imaging, and further evaluate the condition of epilepsy patients, without radiation problems, and the image is also very clear.

2. Brain CT examination: This is what is called structural imaging examination in medicine, if there is a problem of organic damage to the brain, it is necessary to use this examination item to judge the abnormal discharge of the patient's encephalopathy nerves.

3. Biochemical examination: Generally speaking, patients with congenital diseases or hereditary epilepsy need to undergo this biochemical examination, which is very helpful for clarifying epilepsy**, if the examination results are not clear, lumbar puncture is also needed for cerebrospinal fluid examination.

1.Judging by age:

Benign epilepsy in children is basically 8 to 10 years old at the age of 8 to 10 years old, and rarely occurs over the age of 15.

2. Judging from the clinical manifestations:

Its clinical manifestations are mainly manifested in some abnormalities in accent and swallowing movements, which can appear with throat rumbling, and difficulty swallowing, or slurred speech and difficulty opening the mouth.

3. Judging from the electroencephalogram:

The electroencephalogram of this disease is special, the most common is the seizure of abnormal spikes in the temporal region, coupled with the age history and its clinical manifestations, combined with the electroencephalography can diagnose benign epilepsy, then his prognosis is relatively good.

Benign epilepsy in children is easy or not necessary, and there are no sequelae, and it is ...... to judge benign epilepsy in childrenBenign epilepsy in children is more common between the ages of 2 and 14 years, and occurs in the 70s during sleep, with symptoms of lateral muscle rigidity or clonic and salivation.

Benign epilepsy occurs only in childhood. The diagnostic criteria are, first, no organic changes in the brain, and second, normal CT and magnetic resonance imaging of the head. Third, electroencephalogram examination, when not having a seizure, there are spikes or spikes in the ** and temporal areas of the brain.

This feature is only found in EEG after 30% of patients fall asleep. Fourth, intellectual development is not affected and academic performance is good, fifth, seizures become less and less common with age, and sixth, most sick children stop having seizures after three years of onset.

Generally, from the form of seizures and the examination of electroencephalogram, it is possible to determine whether it is benign epilepsy in children. Benign epilepsy in children has one of the most typical, that is, the EEG background is normal, and most of them are spikes and slows and spikes and slows combined. Moreover, its seizures are in the form of sleep episodes, which generalize from local to generalized.

There are also parts of the swallowing movement as a manifestation, and some of the eyes as a manifestation. Therefore, their seizure forms are relatively special, and it is easier to judge from the combination of electroencephalograms.

(1) Look at the frequency of seizures.

Seizures are less frequent, and of course they may be benign.

2) Look at the child's EEG performance.

3) See if the child has other problems

For example, cognitive dysfunction, developmental abnormalities.

The entire history is used to determine whether it is benign or malignant.

This cannot be judged by an individual, and it is necessary to go to the hospital to check and combine various data such as his usual performance and the blood of the hospital to judge the child's benign epilepsy.

This is not a good judgment, you have to find a professional doctor to understand the situation, and you can't just believe his words.

What about this, you can judge it according to the time he released it. In general, benign epilepsy can be cured. There are always some manifestations of slight convulsions, which are particularly short. I hope that the majority of parents must pay attention to this phenomenon.

Pediatric epilepsy is mostly genetic. The typical symptoms of a seizure are straight eyes, staring ahead, foaming at the mouth, convulsions or rigidity of the limbs, and strange sounds in the throat. Seizures are usually abrupt and transient, and the disease can be reversed.

Through the observation of the above symptoms, it can be concluded that the child has benign epilepsy.

Benign epilepsy in children is mainly a type of epilepsy with a good prognosis based on clinical manifestations and specific features of electroencephalogram. Epilepsy itself is a syndrome of chronic abnormal brain function caused by a variety of reasons, and is a common disease in the nervous system of children, mainly manifested by recurrent convulsive seizures, some may be accompanied by transient abnormalities in consciousness, movement, sensation, and emotion, and the prognosis is different for different types.

If you want to judge whether it is benign epilepsy, it is actually very simple, as long as you are sent to the hospital immediately after the onset of the disease, the doctor will definitely deal with it for you, and you must not speculate and judge at home that it will affect the condition.

How to judge benign epilepsy in childrenFirst of all, his judgment is that he may feel that the nature of petit mal seizures is different? The director may sometimes feel numb and trembling in his hands and feet. And the time to initiate the seizure is relatively short.