How is infantile spasm treated?

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Infantile spasm is also known as West syndrome in clinic. It is characterized by nodding epilepsy, myoclonic seizure, and knife type convulsion. It is also accompanied by convulsion and infantile myoclonic encephalopathy. It is a serious and age-related symptomatic and systemic epilepsy disease in clinic. Infantile spasm has an early onset age, Sudden decline in intellectual development, the patient's EEG also showed a peak rhythm disorder of a disease, also known as epilepsy. Now let's share with you.

How is infantile spasm treated?

First: in clinical treatment, we should pay attention to protect the fetus and newborn from hypoxia, birth injury, infection and other damage, but also to protect the risk of fetal asphyxia. If you are pregnant, you should do more prenatal examination, and check the fetus, and then decide the necessity of pregnancy and early treatment. Pay more attention to the health of the fetus, pay attention to whether the fetus has abnormal mental state. Prevent the possibility of infantile spasm.

Second: in clinic, early and intensive treatment of infantile spasm is very important. If you want to cure all the diseases and reach the original level of intelligence, you can take steroids. But this treatment is easy to relapse, and also easy to cause infection, hypertension and electrolyte disorders and other symptoms. If the condition can be established, hormone therapy should be used as soon as possible.

Third: antiepileptic drugs can be used to treat infantile spasm in clinic. The commonly used drugs in clinic are nitrazepam, clonazepam, sodium propionate and other drugs. However, this kind of drugs should not be combined with corticosteroids, otherwise antagonistic effect will occur. High dose vitamin B6 is also an adjuvant treatment for infantile epilepsy. Moreover, the coenzyme of glutamate decarboxylase can inhibit the excitability of receptor and block the synaptic conduction of ganglion. 　　

matters needing attention

1. The fetus should pay attention to protect the fetus and newborn from hypoxia or infection. 2. Pregnant women should actively prevent and treat febrile convulsion, and take medication immediately when it occurs. 3. We should also actively prevent children's nervous system diseases, if found, we should treat them in time, so as to reduce the sequelae.