Patient's question:
What are the symptoms of pediatric epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Children often feel weak in their hands and cannot hold things or frequently make faces. Don't think this is just a manifestation of a child's mischievousness. This could be a warning sign of pediatric epilepsy. Experts say that weakness in children's hands and making faces are symptoms of epilepsy.Epilepsy is a chronic disease whose clinical manifestations can include sudden loss of consciousness, weakness in the hands, and a tendency to make faces. Experts note that although the disease poses significant harm to children, if effective intervention is provided in the early stages, the condition of about 80% of children can be controlled. After a certain period of rehabilitation training, some children may even achieve a cure. Some may manifest as weakness in their hands, often unable to hold things given by their parents. Others may exhibit sudden loss of consciousness, such as a child who is happily playing or running suddenly falling down, or dropping bowls and chopsticks while eating. All of these are manifestations of pediatric epilepsy.