Patient's question:
What are the obvious symptoms of early childhood epilepsy? What are the obvious symptoms of early childhood epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Experts from Hangzhou Chang'an Epilepsy Research Institute Answer for You:1. Grand mal seizures are a common type of childhood epilepsy seizure. The early symptoms of childhood epilepsy seizures include sudden loss of consciousness, falling to the ground, sometimes a loud cry, followed by a pause, foaming at the mouth, generalized tonic-clonic convulsions, bitten lips or tongue, and incontinence of urine and feces. Recovery typically takes 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Small seizures are divided into two types: absence seizures and myoclonic seizures. Childhood epilepsy absence seizures are characterized by: sudden staring or upward rolling of the eyes, vacant expression, interruption of movement and speech, dropping objects, unresponsiveness to, lasting for about 30 seconds, and then returning to normal. Myoclonic seizures involve rapid (1–2 seconds) muscle jerks in the face, upper limbs, neck, or trunk.
3. Focal seizures. In childhood epilepsy, focal seizures have early symptoms such as short-duration convulsions or numbness and tingling in one side of the mouth, eyelids, fingers, toes, or one side of the face and limbs. The convulsions may spread from the fingers to the upper limbs and then to the opposite side.
4. Psychomotor seizures. Similar to absence seizures but lasting longer than 1 minute. They may also involve various hallucinations, delusions, or unconscious movements, such as crying, chewing, smacking lips, or buttoning clothes.