Patient's question:
Female, 4 years old, child experiencing convulsions in hands and feet, shock within 5-13 minutes, no foaming at the mouth, visited several hospitals, but none provided effective treatment. Please ask which diseases are easily confused with pediatric epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Diseases easily confused with pediatric epilepsy are common in clinical diagnosis. One of them is pseudo-recurrence. Pseudo-recurrence refers to situations where a child in adolescence has a severe seizure episode, and it is essential to differentiate it from tics. Children with tics often exhibit diverse forms of recurrence. During a recurrence, if you look into their eyes, they appear red but the pupils do not dilate. It is well-known that during an epileptic recurrence, the pupils are indeed dilated. Additionally, pseudo-recurrence shows normal results on an electroencephalogram (EEG), which helps in differentiating it from tics.Another common condition seen in childhood is Tourette Syndrome, also known as. Patients with Tourette Syndrome often exhibit various bizarre symptoms during recurrence, such as blinking eyes, grimacing, sticking out their tongues, making vocal sounds, or experiencing limb tremors.