Can infant epilepsy be treated?

Infantile epilepsy can be treated. Infantile epilepsy is usually the result of congenital malformed brain development disorders, such as hippocampal dysplasia. When an infant has a seizure, care should be taken to pry open the baby’s mouth to avoid biting the tongue, and then use sedative medications such as phenobarbital to correct the baby’s abnormal generalized convulsions. The next step is to take long-term low-dose oral drugs such as carbamazepine and sodium valproate to control the progression of the condition and reduce the recurrence of seizures or epilepsy. Therefore, epilepsy can be treated, but whether it can be cured depends on its etiology, as follows: 1. Some benign epilepsies such as febrile convulsions, benign childhood myoclonus, BECT, and most childhood aphasic epilepsies generally do not require special treatment and can be cured spontaneously with age; 2. Some secondary childhood epilepsies such as those caused by focal cortical dysplasia, cerebral facial hemangiomatosis, and partial tuberous sclerosis can be surgical treatment can be cured. In summary, some children with clear causes of epilepsy can be cured or clinically cured by removing the cause and giving the appropriate treatment. The prognosis for most epileptic patients is very good as long as they are detected and treated early, and the treatment is adhered to. Most epileptic patients are no different from normal people during the non-seizure period. Children with epilepsy can live and study like normal people, and can fall in love, get married, and have children as adults.