Patient's question:
On May 31, 2010, it was diagnosed with psychomotor developmental delay, and the MRI results showed external hydrocephalus.Doctor's answer:
Epilepsy is a chronic disease characterized by sudden, abnormal discharges of brain neurons, leading to transient dysfunction of the brain. Epileptic seizure, on the other hand, refers to the clinical phenomenon caused by abnormal and excessive hypersynchronous discharges of brain neurons. Its features are sudden and transient symptoms, and due to the different locations of abnormally discharging neurons in the brain, it manifests in various forms. It can involve motor or sensory nerves, or autonomic nerves, with or without changes in consciousness or alertness.Advice: The incidence of epilepsy in children is relatively high, and it has a significant impact on health. Due to the physiological characteristics of newborns, combined with changes in the nervous and humoral systems, the clinical features of pediatric epilepsy differ in some aspects from those of adults.
(1) Gender, age of onset, and type of recurrence: Generally, males are more affected than females, with the highest incidence in young children. Moreover, age is closely related to the type of recurrence. For example, infantile spasms almost always occur before the age of one, motor seizures typically begin before the age of six, absence seizures often occur between the ages of one and eight, and the onset age of other types of epilepsy is usually within the first ten years of life. Neonatal epilepsy is often concealed and tends to be focal, while older children exhibit more obvious convulsions that are generalized.
(2) Recurrence manifestations: The incidence rates of different types of epilepsy seizures vary with age, and their clinical manifestations are closely related to the maturity of the central nervous system. In addition to the common grand seizures that can occur at any age in children, neonatal epilepsy typically presents with stereotyped repetitive movements and is often accompanied by abnormal eye movements.