Patient's question:
The child of my colleague is only three years old. After having a high fever once, he often has seizures, foams at the mouth, trembles all over, and his eyes roll up. My colleague is very scared because everyone says this is a symptom of epilepsy. Since everyone lacks experience, they can't really help when the child has a seizure. How should they care for him properly?What kind of help is needed: What are the early symptoms of infantile epilepsy, and how should it be treated, prevented, and cared for?
Doctor's answer:
The early symptoms of minor seizures in epilepsy can manifest in two situations: (1) Absence minor seizure, suddenly staring or rolling up the eyes, absence, interruption of movement and language, dropping objects, not responding to calls, lasting for about tens of seconds. (2) Myoclonic minor seizure, short-term (1-2 seconds) myoclonus occurring again in the face, upper limbs, neck, and torso. 2. Focal seizure: Short-term twitching or numbness and tingling in one side of the mouth corner, eyelids, fingers, toes, or one side of the face and limb ends. The twitching can sometimes extend from the fingers to the upper limbs to the opposite side. The above suggestions are for the question "How to treat, prevent, and care for the early symptoms of infantile epilepsy," hoping it helps you, and wishing you good health!