Patient's question:
I don't know what's going on. Yesterday, it started spasming after the baby woke up, and now it's spasming in the hands and feet. It feels like the child has deformities in their hands and feet. Right now, my home is using gas for cooking, and the child is crying and fussing severely.Doctor's answer:
Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms:1. Poisoning: Lead, coal gas, pesticides, as well as systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, rapidly progressive nephritis, and uremia can all trigger relapses of infantile spasms.
Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms:
2. Birth Injury: A common factor or cause of symptomatic epilepsy in infants and children, birth injuries may result from forceps-assisted delivery, vacuum extraction, cephalopelvic disproportion, abnormal, macrosomia, prolonged labor, advanced maternal age, or tight birth canal.