Patient's question:
What are the causes of pediatric epilepsy? Does it affect a child's growth?？？？: My child has always been smart and lively. However, recently, she often stares blankly, looks unfocused, and doesn’t respond when called—then quickly returns to normal. Later, it was discovered that she has epilepsy, but we don’t know why? Please help us understand？？？
Doctor's answer:
Okay, here is the translation following your instructions:I. Idiopathic Epilepsy Etiology
Idiopathic epilepsy refers to epilepsy without the manifestations of intracranial organic or metabolic diseases, and the etiology cannot be found using current diagnostic methods. Most patients with idiopathic epilepsy have a certain relationship with genetics.
II. Secondary Epilepsy Etiology
Secondary epilepsy is also known as symptomatic or acquired epilepsy. In this type of epilepsy, clinical seizures are only one symptom of a brain disease and are a symptom of an organic brain disease. For example, during the embryonic period, the fetal brain is affected by external adverse factors, causing malformations, including holoprosencephaly, megencephaly, neuronal heterotopia, porencephaly, macrocephaly, etc. These children with congenital brain developmental abnormalities not only have epilepsy seizures but are often accompanied by mental retardation. Brain diseases, brain tumors are one of the common causes, especially the so-called late-onset epilepsy after adulthood, the proportion is even higher.