How to diagnose epilepsy in children

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Our unit a colleague's child suddenly convulsed, looks very frightening, went to the hospital to check to know is epilepsy, took a lot of drugs, the body is good, you want to know how to diagnose infantile epilepsy. Is that right? Let me talk to you about how to diagnose childhood epilepsy.

How to diagnose epilepsy in children

Symptom 1: the symptoms of epilepsy, will suddenly stop the activity, two eyes in a daze, and sometimes accompanied by swallowing, smacking, chewing and other movements, or sometimes accompanied by the face and two arms will be slightly shaking.

Symptom two: when epileptic seizure convulsion is both sides occur at the same time, or one side began to convulsion, the other side then. The duration of seizures is generally longer, whether there is head and eyes, and whether the angle of mouth is inclined to one side, which is helpful to understand the initial position of epileptic discharge.

Symptom 3: epileptic seizure will suddenly lose consciousness, and then there will be a spasm, and then accompanied by a scream, blue face, urinary incontinence, tongue bitten, mouth foaming or blood foam, pupil dilation, generally lasts for ten seconds or a few minutes, it will naturally stop, and then it will enter the state of drowsiness, when the patient wakes up, there will be Period of irritability, fatigue, dizziness and other symptoms, for the attack of their own no memory.

matters needing attention

Genetic factors make some children susceptible to convulsion. In this case, we should pay special attention to the importance of genetic counseling. We should try our best to know whether the parents, siblings and close relatives of the patients have seizures and their seizure characteristics. For some serious genetic diseases that can cause mental retardation and epilepsy, prenatal diagnosis or neonatal screening should be carried out to decide whether to terminate pregnancy or early pregnancy Treatment.