Patient's question:
Male, 5 years old, the child has had 7 episodes this week. When checked at the hospital, they said it was epilepsy. Our family doesn't have this genetic history, and we really don't know how the child got this disease. My wife and I are almost at our wit's end. Please ask: What are the clinical manifestations of pediatric epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Clinical manifestations of pediatric epilepsy, in fact, are related to its recurrence type. For example, the common tonic-clonic seizure. The manifestations of tonic-clonic seizure are tonic phase followed by clonic phase. Tonic phase might be unfamiliar to many, but if parents of such patients have seen it, it appears as most of the two hands curled and the head tilted backward, with legs extended, resembling opisthotonos. This is the tonic phase. After the tonic phase, there is a clonic phase, which is called clonic phase. This is tonic-clonic seizure, and this is the clinical manifestation of tonic-clonic seizure. Other types include tonic recurrence, which I mentioned earlier—where there is only a tonic phase without a clonic phase. This is tonic recurrence.