Symptoms of infantile spastic epilepsy

summary

Epilepsy is not unknown in our daily life. Epilepsy is a high incidence rate in China. Epilepsy does not occur at a fixed time, so it has a great impact on the life and work of patients. The main characteristics of epileptic seizures are foaming at the mouth, twitching of limbs and loss of consciousness. But after the onset of the disease, it is the same as ordinary people, and they have no memory of the process of the onset. So the symptoms of infantile spastic epilepsy tell us.

Symptoms of infantile spastic epilepsy

1. Bow like spasm: a short-term muscle spasm of the whole body occurs suddenly, the trunk and legs are bent, and the arms are stretched forward and out sharply.

2. Nodding spasm muscle spasm is limited to the head and neck, appear nodding attack, forehead, face prone to bruises.

3. The duration of lightning like spasm is very short, which can only be detected when the child happens to be looking at it. The atypical form of attack is asymmetric spasm. Rotation of head to one side or convulsion of one side limb, extensional spasm, head backward, eyes upward, leg extension, and reflexes.

matters needing attention

Most of symptomatic infantile spasms have poor prognosis, mainly manifested as mental and motor retardation, convulsions are difficult to control or change into other types of seizures. Spasmodic seizures last for 3-30 months, generally decrease after 1 year old, and tend to disappear after 3 years old. About half of the children change to other types of seizures, most of them are generalized seizures, including atypical absence, tonic seizures, tonic clonic seizures, atonic seizures, etc., and some of them may also have partial seizures. Some infantile spasms developed into Lennox Gastaut syndrome. Most of the children left behind psychomotor development.