Patient's question:
The child has seizures every time they have a fever and has undergone a 24-hour EEG, which the doctor says indicates epilepsy. They don't have seizures when they don't have a fever. Does this mean they have epilepsy? Is it treatable? What causes the child's epilepsy? What kind of help is needed: What causes the child's epilepsyDoctor's answer:
Many reasons can trigger epilepsy attacks, so please pay close attention and conduct timely and thorough checks.1. Inappropriate medication use: Whether it's idiopathic epilepsy or symptomatic epilepsy, suddenly stopping medication or arbitrarily switching to a new anticonvulsant drug during the treatment process can easily lead to a recurrence of status epilepticus.
2. Other diseases leading to it: This is mainly caused by toxic encephalopathy resulting from infections, such as common cold with fever, pneumonia, sepsis, dysentery, urinary tract infections, etc., which can lead to prolonged states; it is also common to be caused by conditions like traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, and cerebrovascular diseases, which are among the causes of recurrent epilepsy.