Patient's question:
I am 32 years old, and my daughter is 3 years old. What worries me the most is that she has had epilepsy since she was a child. When she has a seizure, my heart aches. I have always wanted to cure her. I want to know what the causes of her seizures are?Doctor's answer:
Causes of childhood epilepsy:Infectious convulsions (febrile convulsions): Intracranial diseases such as viral encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis. Bacterial infections such as purulent meningitis, tuberculous meningitis, brain abscess, and cavernous sinus thrombosis. Fungal infections such as Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis. Parasitic infections such as neurocysticercosis, cerebral malaria, cerebral schistosomiasis, cerebral lung fluke disease, and toxoplasmosis. Extracranial diseases such as high fever convulsions, toxic encephalopathy (pneumonia, whooping cough, toxic dysentery, sepsis as the primary disease), tetanus, etc.