What disease can infantile myoclonic epilepsy cause

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Myoclonic epilepsy in children is an age-related cryptogenic or symptomatic generalized epilepsy syndrome. That is to say, the decisive epilepsy in the year is a type of encephalopathy. The characteristics of this disease is that the onset age is relatively early, onset in early childhood, attack in a variety of forms, intellectual development will also be affected, treatment is very difficult. The most common types of attack were Zhou Xin's tetanic attack, atypical absence attack and tension attack. So children with myoclonic epilepsy, what are some of the complications? Now let me introduce it to you

What disease can infantile myoclonic epilepsy cause

Children's muscle array, clonic epilepsy complications, will appear mental retardation. The intelligence of this kind of children is generally lower than that of normal children. This kind of children's physical growth is also relatively slow. Spastic paralysis, quadriplegia, microcephaly, etc. Myoclonic seizures, mainly seen in the shoulder and upper limb bilateral or to the side, the performance of a sudden short twitch.

Cerebral palsy is also a complication. Moderate or severe abnormal EEG, you can have the risk of cerebral palsy, this risk and very large. The longer the duration of neonatal seizures, the greater the possibility of cerebral palsy later.

It is very difficult to treat infantile spasmodic epilepsy. Due to frequent epileptic seizures, antiepileptic drugs are often resistant, often due to the tendency to use a variety of drugs, it is easy to produce toxic effects of drugs. And the sedative effect of a variety of drugs actually increases the frequency of seizures.

matters needing attention

Children's muscle spasm epilepsy, if you want to prevent it, you should pay attention to perinatal health care, protect the fetus and newborn from hypoxia, birth injury or infection. Also to actively prevent various diseases of the nervous system in children, timely treatment.