Patient's question:
Many epilepsy patients feel extremely desperate when they learn they have epilepsy during hospital examinations, as if the sky has collapsed. So, what are the early symptoms of infantile epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Hello, patients may experience absence seizures accompanied by dystonia. The main manifestation is mild increase in postural tone during absence seizures, primarily affecting the extensor muscles, most commonly involving the eye muscles, causing upward gaze. The affected range can further expand to the neck or trunk, leading to head extension or trunk hyperextension. Asymmetric postural dystonia in infantile epilepsy can cause the head or trunk to turn to one side. Dystonia with mild clonic components is highly hazardous.