Common knowledge of pediatric epilepsy should be noted

  Epilepsy is highly initiated in infancy and early childhood, but it is also the best time to treat epilepsy. Psychological treatment for children with epilepsy should start with self, family and society. Psychotherapy is also called spiritual therapy. It means that the doctor or parents restore the epileptic patient’s normal adaptation to the environment through guidance and persuasion, psychiatric intervention and behavioral modification (1) The child’s own side Educate the child who already understands to face reality squarely, have the courage to overcome fear, maintain an optimistic and upward-looking attitude, actively cooperate with treatment, and give full play to his or her potential and strengths to make life better. At the appropriate time, the doctor or parents should discuss epilepsy with the child to make him aware of this knowledge and eliminate misconceptions. It can be highlighted that epilepsy is only a symptom of disturbance of brain electrical activity. Short-term convulsions do not affect brain function, and even longer-term convulsions rarely produce irreversible damage to the central nervous system after the seizures are controlled. The epilepsy is a curable disease, and there is no scientific basis for equating epilepsy with mental retardation.  (2) Family As epilepsy requires long-term treatment, the family of each child with epilepsy is endowed with a special historical mission. The family members, especially the parents, care for the child, love and spiritual communication is the most important, which gives the child the courage and motivation to overcome the disease.    The cause of epilepsy is very complex, and in general, epilepsy can be divided into two main categories from etiology, one is epilepsy without a clear cause, this type of epilepsy accounts for 20% of the total number of epilepsy patients, most of them are related to genetics, so it is also called cryptogenic epilepsy or genetic epilepsy. The most common causes include congenital developmental malformations, genetic metabolic diseases, perinatal brain injury such as birth injury, asphyxia, intracranial hemorrhage, hypoxia, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, of which hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is the most common cause of epilepsy. In addition: brain injury after febrile convulsions also leads to epilepsy. Regardless of the cause of epilepsy, active treatment of the primary cause, rapid seizure control, and receiving regular, reasonable, and non-toxic treatment is the guarantee of smooth recovery from the disease.  Children with epilepsy should be sent to hospital immediately for treatment. This is to avoid accidents or irreversible damage to the brain if the convulsions last too long. It is also important to keep the child’s airway open on the way to the hospital to prevent secretions from choking into the trachea during convulsions.