Patient's question:
The baby was less than a week old when it was diagnosed with neonatal epilepsy, and the whole family was in a panic. No one in the family had this disease, and they didn't know how the baby got it.Doctor's answer:
Postpartum factors causing neonatal epilepsy (epilepsy): Central nervous system infections, brain trauma, congenital cardiovascular malformations, hypertensive encephalopathy, reactive diseases, febrile seizures, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, hypothyroidism, vitamin D deficiency, vitamin B6 deficiency, and others are factors or causes of infant epilepsy (epilepsy).