Patient's question:
What are the factors or causes of infantile spasms? Please provide a detailed introduction. The child has been diagnosed with infantile spasms.Doctor's answer:
Experts from Beijing Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine told us: Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 1. Poisoning: Lead, gas, pesticides, as well as systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, rapidly progressive nephritis, and uremia can all cause relapses of infantile spasms. Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 2. Birth Injury: It is a common factor or cause of symptomatic epilepsy in infants and children. Factors or Causes of Birth Injury include forceps delivery, vacuum extraction, cephalopelvic disproportion, abnormal, fetal macrosomia, prolonged labor, advanced maternal age, and tight birth canal. Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 3. Amniotic Fluid Aspiration, Fetal Asphyxia, Cord Around Neck, Placental Abruption, Anterior Placenta, Cord Prolapse, Cesarean Section, etc., significantly increase the incidence of infantile spasms later in life. Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 4. Cerebrovascular Diseases: Pediatric vascular malformations can produce infantile spasms, but this is less common. Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 5. Brain Developmental Defects, Developmental Delay, Brain Atrophy, etc. Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 6. Intracranial Tumors: Pediatric tumors, but this is less common. Factors or Causes of Infantile Spasms 7. Various forms of encephalitis, meningitis, and brain abscesses. After recovery from these conditions, some patients may have sequelae of infantile spasms.