Patient's question:
My child, when he was over a year old, sometimes had shaking hands and feet at night. I thought he was calcium deficient, so I bought a lot of calcium supplements. However, it often happened, and when I took him to check, they said it was a symptom of epilepsy.Doctor's answer:
The causes of epilepsy in children include primary epilepsy, which refers to patients whose brains show no structural changes or metabolic abnormalities that can explain the symptoms, mainly caused by genetic factors. Secondary epilepsy is more complex in its triggers, primarily resulting from various brain diseases and systemic illnesses, with genetics potentially playing a role as well. If there is a history of difficult childbirth or trauma in newborns, and symptoms such as vomiting, suffocation, or intermittent cyanosis appear, it is often due to intracranial hemorrhage causing epilepsy. Additionally, artificially fed children over one year old may also develop epilepsy.