Patient's question:
What are the causes of epilepsy in infants? The baby always cries at night and sometimes even rolls his eyes. After a thorough examination at the hospital, it was discovered that the child has infantile epilepsy. What should be done? What kind of help is needed: What are the causes of epilepsy in infants?Doctor's answer:
Sensory factors: such as visual stimuli (light, television), auditory stimuli (loud noises, music), vestibular stimuli, olfactory stimuli, gustatory stimuli, tactile or proprioceptive stimuli, etc., can all serve as causes of epilepsy. If the child only has seizures triggered by specific stimuli, it is called reflex epilepsy. Deep sleep: Deep sleep can affect certain types of infantile epilepsy and may also be a cause of epilepsy, such as the recurrence of benign childhood epilepsy with central-temporal spikes occurring during deep sleep; infantile spasms are more frequently recurrent upon waking up and before falling asleep; idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic seizures are more likely to recur after a full night's sleep.