Patient's question:
On weekends, my family got bored and went to a nearby park to play. Just when everyone was having a great time, our 6-year-old son suddenly fell to the ground and started having convulsions. This scared us badly, so we rushed him to the hospital for examination. The doctor said he had epilepsy. How could our son suddenly develop this condition? He had never had this before?Doctor's answer:
1. Seizures need to be differentiated from various types of paroxysmal disorders ① Hysteria; ② Syncope; ③ Hyperventilation Syndrome; ④ Migraine; ⑤ Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA); ⑥ Narcolepsy. Additionally, epilepsy should be differentiated from paroxysmal psychiatric symptoms and paroxysmal other visceral symptoms.2. Etiological differentiation of symptomatic epilepsy and epilepsy syndromes (1) Systemic diseases that can cause epilepsy ① Hypoglycemia; ② Hypocalcemia; ③ Aminoaciduria, etc. (2) Brain diseases that can cause epilepsy with or without a history of birth injury, high fever convulsions, brain trauma, stroke, etc.