Patient's question:
What are the causes of epilepsy in children? Why did my nephew develop epilepsy? My niece is only 3 years old, how could she get epilepsy? Will this condition affect the child's intelligence? What kind of help is needed: What are the causes of epilepsy in children?Doctor's answer:
Epilepsy is divided into primary and secondary epilepsy. The vast majority of epilepsy has primary epilepsy, and the specific cause is unclear, considered to be related to generational inheritance, birth injury, intrauterine distress, or respiratory difficulties at birth. Secondary epilepsy is epilepsy that occurs due to intracranial organic diseases. Currently, based on your description alone, it is difficult to diagnose the type of epilepsy in your child. We can only advise the parents to take the child to the pediatric department of a hospital for a follow-up visit, where the doctor can perform a physical examination and further tests to determine the type of epilepsy before guiding the use of antiepileptic drugs. The doctor asked: Has the child undergone a brain MRI examination? Are there any abnormalities?