Patient's question:
The child has always been quiet and not very talkative. At first, I thought it was shyness, but later I realized that sometimes he also interacts with people. However, he would suddenly stop talking to others without any reason. After careful observation, I noticed that he sometimes stares blankly without any cause, and there are slight twitching movements. After a thorough medical examination, the doctor said he has epilepsy and needs to take medication for treatment. But how could he get this disease?What kind of help is needed: What are the causes of pediatric epilepsy?
Doctor's answer:
Childhood epilepsy is commonly associated with congenital brain developmental malformations, such as lissencephaly, macrocephaly, polymicrogyria, gray matter heterotopia, porencephaly, congenital hydrocephalus, corpus callosum agenesis, arachnoid cysts, microcephaly, and megencephaly, all of which can cause epilepsy. Additionally, brain injuries caused during the child's perinatal period, primarily due to birth injuries, respiratory distress, intracranial hemorrhage, aspiration, and ischemic encephalopathy, with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy being the most common cause leading to epilepsy in children.