Causes and solutions of pediatric convulsions

The causes of pediatric convulsions include infectious causes, non-infectious causes, etc. Their treatment includes treatment of the original disease, general treatment, anticonvulsant treatment, symptomatic treatment, etc. 1. Causes (1) Infectious causes: ① intracranial infections: such as meningitis or encephalitis caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi. ② extracranial infections: including infectious toxic encephalopathy (mostly complicated by sepsis, severe pneumonia, toxic bacillary dysentery and other serious infectious diseases), febrile convulsions and so on. (2) Non-infectious causes: ① intracranial diseases: including craniocerebral injury and hemorrhage, congenital developmental malformations, intracranial space-occupying lesions and so on. Extracranial diseases: including hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, metabolic diseases (water-electrolyte disorders, liver and kidney failure), poisoning and so on. 2. Treatment (1) Treatment of primary diseases: targeted treatment according to the above causes. (2) General treatment: keep the head tilted to one side, keep the airway open, avoid suffocation and aspiration, and do not insert any objects into the mouth. (3) Anti-frightening treatment: preferred benzodiazepine drugs, such as Dixie mix, but also can use sodium phenobarbital, 10% chloral hydrate, phenytoin sodium and so on. (4) Symptomatic treatment: high fever can be given drugs and physical methods to reduce temperature, such as ibuprofen. The presence of increased intracranial pressure, can be used to 20% mannitol, etc. to reduce cranial pressure. Pediatric convulsions may also have other causes, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.