Can infantile epilepsy affect intelligence

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My child is only five years old, but I found that my child is a little abnormal, always said that he was dizzy, the doctor said that the child has some symptoms of epilepsy, has been in treatment, but I also found that my child's intelligence is very low. Today, let me talk about whether children's epilepsy will affect intelligence.

Can infantile epilepsy affect intelligence

First: the impact of seizures on children's intelligence is positive, and the extent of the impact is mainly scattered in the severity of brain damage. That is to say, the main cause of mental retardation in children with epilepsy is its primary disease, and it is also closely related to the type of epilepsy, seizure frequency, course of disease, the degree and duration of abnormal EEG, and the use of antiepileptic drugs.

Second: epilepsy research and treatment center experts pointed out that the main reasons are: children with convulsions when apnea, and blood circulation disorders, hypoglycemia, etc., children with epilepsy brain damage is proportional to the number of seizures, the more the number of seizures, the longer the duration of each seizure, the more serious the brain tissue damage, the more serious the intellectual impairment.

Third: different types of seizures have different effects on intelligence, such as neonatal convulsions, infantile spasms, small motor epilepsy. If they are not controlled in time, most of them have mental retardation. However, absence seizures and central benign epilepsy in children have relatively small impact on children's intelligence.

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The incidence rate of epilepsy in children is high and the harm is high. It has become one of the main diseases that endanger children's health. Epilepsy in children has always been the focus of attention among parents, for fear that their children will be affected with epilepsy. If they can not find and treat them in time, they will cause greater harm to children.