Patient's question:
Your friend's child is now two years old and has recently developed a problem. At night, they always twitch continuously for about minutes. Your friend is very worried and wants to take the child to the hospital for a check-up. What are the complications of infantile spasms?Doctor's answer:
Hello, the main complications include intellectual development disorders, delayed physical growth, spastic paralysis, quadriplegia, microcephaly, and others. Intellectual changes: In the initial stage of infantile spasms, 60% to 70% of children have intellectual disability, which can increase to 85% to 90% by the age of 2. Regardless of whether there was intellectual retardation before the onset of spasms, intellectual development disorders will appear subsequently once spasms occur. In 95% of cases, there is psychomotor developmental delay.