Symptoms of sleep at night in children with epilepsy

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Children suffering from epilepsy is generally difficult to find, authoritative epilepsy experts pointed out that children are one of the epileptics, we must have a certain understanding of children's sleep epilepsy symptoms. Children sleep epilepsy symptoms, in some children or performance for myoclonus, that is, a part of the muscles or limbs suddenly twitch, or flexion or extension, unconscious, this myoclonus can develop into paroxysmal seizures. Epilepsy children sleep at night to tell you about the symptoms.

Symptoms of sleep at night in children with epilepsy

Some children suddenly have transient muscle tension, can't maintain posture, attack lasts 1-3 seconds, can continue several times, incomplete muscle tension can be shown as a sudden bow. If the muscle tension is shown as a sudden fall, consciousness temporarily unclear. Immediately after the attack, immediately stand up, this situation is called the motionless seizure, is also the main symptom of epilepsy in children.

The characteristics of baby's epileptic seizures are: the sudden occurrence of short-term consciousness, No drowsiness after seizures, the interruption of language and the cessation of activities during seizures, fixed in a certain position, no falling, and staring blankly. Sometimes pale, no muscle twitch, attack lasts 2-10 seconds, not more than 30 seconds, soon consciousness recovery, continue normal activities.

Infantile sleep epilepsy can occur frequently all night, up to dozens of times. About 30% of the cases showed abnormal discharges in frontal area during the attack, about half of the cases showed rhythmic slow waves in the anterior head, and 10% of the cases showed diffuse background activity flattening during the attack. More than half of the children had neurological abnormalities during the day, including difficulty in getting up in the morning and excessive daytime sleepiness.

matters needing attention

Children with epilepsy is very easy to suffer from epilepsy, so please pay attention to, if you find the situation mentioned in the above article, we must pay attention to take their children to the regular hospital treatment.