Patient's question:
What are the symptoms of secondary epilepsy in children?Doctor's answer:
I. For the symptoms of secondary epilepsy, two basic characteristics must be met: recurrence and relapse. Both are essential and cannot be missing. The causes of secondary epilepsy symptoms are complex, mainly due to various factors or conditions that lead to brain diseases and systemic diseases, and genetics may also play a certain role. Congenital diseases, prenatal and perinatal diseases, epilepsy recurrence after high fever convulsions, cranial trauma, intracranial infections, poisoning, intracranial tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, nutritional metabolic diseases, and other conditions.II. The symptoms of secondary epilepsy manifest as dizziness and visual hallucinations, followed by loss of consciousness, unresponsiveness, fixed gaze, and convulsions of the upper limbs, lasting for about 2 minutes. Symptoms may include biting the tongue to the point of bleeding and profuse sweating all over the body.
III. Common types of secondary pediatric epilepsy include pediatric epilepsy with occipital discharge, chronic progressive partial epilepsy in children, temporal lobe epilepsy, pediatric absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy during awakening, infantile spasms, and acquired aphasic epilepsy, among others. The symptoms of this type of epilepsy are characterized by a lack of consciousness recovery between episodes.