How to treat children with increasingly frequent sleep-onset epilepsy

Children’s sleep-type epilepsy is becoming more and more frequent in addition to antiepileptic drug therapy, ketogenic diet therapy, surgical treatment, etc. can also be considered. Children’s sleep-type epilepsy refers to epileptiform seizures during sleep, mainly refers to children’s benign epilepsy in the central temporal region spiking foci, and frontal lobe epilepsy, etc. Epilepsy needs to follow the principle of individualized treatment, customized individualized program, treatment is a long-term chronic management process. Antiepileptic drugs are commonly used in children, and sodium valproate, phenobarbital, and carbamazepine may be considered. A ketogenic dietary regimen, a complementary therapy for epilepsy, may also be considered to control seizures by changing to a high-fat diet structure that utilizes ketone bodies such as acetone, beta-hydroxybutyric acid, and acetoacetic acid, which are produced by high-fat metabolism, to reduce neuronal excitability, and thus control epilepsy. If the epileptic foci are relatively limited and do not develop cerebral neuromotor and sensory dysfunction after resection, and the location of the epileptic foci is relatively easy to operate on, surgical treatment may be considered. Regardless of which treatment plan, parents are advised to bring their children to regular medical institutions in a timely manner to determine a professional treatment plan for standardized treatment.