Patient's question:
What are the early symptoms of epilepsy? Can child epilepsy be cured? My child is in junior high school and has always been very healthy, with excellent academic performance in class. However, he suddenly developed epilepsy. Neither of his parents' relatives has this disease, and we really can't accept it. What factors or causes could be responsible for this?Doctor's answer:
Hello, friend. The main clinical symptoms of epilepsy are briefly listed as follows:1. Generalized tonic-clonic seizure (grand mal seizure): Sudden loss of consciousness, followed by tonic and then clonic convulsions. Often accompanied by screaming, bluish complexion, incontinence, bitten tongue, foaming at the mouth or blood foam, and dilated pupils. The convulsions last for tens of seconds or minutes before stopping naturally, and the person enters a state of unconsciousness. After waking, there may be short-term dizziness, irritability, and fatigue, with no memory of the seizure. If the seizure persists continuously, leading to a state of continuous unconsciousness, it is called a status epilepticus, which is often life-threatening.
2. Absence seizure (petit mal seizure): Sudden interruption of mental activity, loss of consciousness, and may be accompanied by myoclonus or automatisms. Each seizure lasts from a few seconds to more than ten seconds. An electroencephalogram (EEG) shows 3 Hz spike-and-wave or sharp-and-slow wave complexes.
3. Simple partial seizure: Tonic or clonic recurrence of a specific part or one side of the body, or abnormal sensations, lasting briefly, with clear consciousness. If the seizure spreads from the motor cortex to other limbs or the whole body, it may be accompanied by loss of consciousness, known as Jacksonian seizure (J). After the seizure, the affected limb may have temporary paralysis, known as Todd's paralysis.
4. Complex partial seizure (psychomotor seizure): Psychosensory, psychomotor, or mixed seizures. There is usually varying degrees of impaired consciousness and significant disturbances in thought, perception, emotion, and psychomotor activity. Automatisms such as fugue state or sleepwalking may occur. At times, under the influence of hallucinations or delusions, violent behavior such as harming others or self-harm may occur.
5. Autonomic seizure (mesial temporal lobe): May include headache-type, abdominal pain-type, limb pain-type, syncope-type, or cardiovascular-type seizures.
6. Epilepsy with no clear cause is called primary epilepsy, while epilepsy caused by intracranial tumors, trauma, infection, parasitic diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, or systemic metabolic diseases is called secondary epilepsy. You can try the N-linked multi-dimensional epilepsy rehabilitation system.