Symptoms of infantile epilepsy

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Infantile epilepsy is a common brain disease with complex etiology, wide inducement and various clinical manifestations and symptoms in childhood. It is mainly due to children's nervous system hypoplasia, low body resistance, high fever or intense mental stimulation in cerebral cortex, resulting in excessive excitement. As you do not understand the symptoms of the disease, leading to the failure to judge the disease in time, so I will introduce it to you.

Symptoms of infantile epilepsy

1. Major seizures are characterized by sudden loss of consciousness, apnea, white foam at the mouth, blue complexion, and dilated pupils. Convulsions begin with rigidity of limbs, clenching of fists, up turning of eyes or deviation of one side, and then clonic twitch of muscles on the face and limbs, shortness of breath, often tongue bite, and fecal incontinence. The attack lasts for 1-5 minutes. After the attack, the patient is unconscious or sleepy, and wakes up after several hours.

2. Experts said that the baby's epileptic symptoms are characterized by a sudden and short-term loss of consciousness, No drowsiness after the seizure, language interruption and activity stop during the seizure, fixed in a certain position, no fall, and staring blankly. Sometimes pale, no muscle twitch, attack lasts 2-10 seconds, not more than 30 seconds, soon consciousness recovery, continue normal activities.

3. In some children, it can also be manifested as myoclonus, that is, sudden twitch of muscles or limbs in a certain part of the body, or flexion or extension, without loss of consciousness. This kind of myoclonus can develop into generalized seizures.

matters needing attention

The above is the introduction of the baby's symptoms. If parents find similar symptoms, they should go to a professional hospital for examination and timely treatment according to the causes, so as not to endanger the child's health.