Patient's question:
The child developed epilepsy when they were very young. I want to know what is the best way to do things in daily life, and what should we pay attention to? Seeking help: What should be noted for early childhood epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Frequent seizures can affect a child's brain development, causing abnormalities in their physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral abilities, such as staring, blinking, smacking the lips, or swallowing. These seemingly brief, ordinary actions may be early symptoms of epilepsy. Early treatment can control the early symptoms of infantile epilepsy in about 70% of cases. The incidence rate of epilepsy is approximately 8%, with hundreds of thousands of new cases reported each year, bringing the total number of patients to 8 million, over half of whom are children and adolescents. The symptoms of infantile epilepsy are closely related to age, with the highest incidence rate during childhood, and the closer to the infant stage, the higher the incidence. Since most epilepsy initially manifests as localized small movements rather than the traditional symptoms of falling, convulsions, stiffness, or foaming at the mouth, it is often easily overlooked.