Patient's question:
The baby was less than a week old when it was diagnosed with neonatal epilepsy, and the whole family was panicked. None of the family members 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).