What are the pathogenic factors of epilepsy

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He began to get sick at the age of three, and now he has four. Every time is caused by emotional excitement, when the onset of light cramps, childhood heavy unconscious, the hospital inspection report said it was epilepsy, treatment for a period of time, now it is good, I share my child's pathogenic factors of epilepsy to you, hope to have a reminder effect on you.

What are the pathogenic factors of epilepsy

Etiology 1: common hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia, hypomagnesemia, vitamin deficiency, hypothyroidism and other nutritional and metabolic disorders and endocrine diseases are also causes of epilepsy in children. In addition, brain injury after trauma and febrile seizures can also lead to the onset of epilepsy in children.

Cause 2: this kind of patients often have congenital brain malformation. If there is no congenital malformation of brain development, then it is gray matter heterotopia. In addition, patients may have neurocutaneous syndrome. The most common neurocutaneous syndrome is tuberous sclerosis, neurofibromatosis and cerebral trigeminal angiomatosis.

Cause 3: hereditary metabolic disease. If patients over rely on phenylketonuria, hyperammonemia, cerebral lipidosis, vitamins, it is likely to get epilepsy. In addition, there is a special perinatal brain injury caused by epilepsy in children.

matters needing attention

As the family members of patients, we must supervise the patients and make them take drugs on time and accurately. The treatment of epilepsy is a long-term process. It takes several years to reduce the drug. If the drug is stopped suddenly in a short period of time, it will often aggravate the disease. Drug withdrawal is a slow process, and some people may need lifelong medication to stop the seizure of epilepsy.