Pediatric epilepsy is a complex, recurrent neurological syndrome of complex etiology common in the pediatric period. It is caused by paroxysmal temporary brain dysfunction. The development of pediatric epilepsy etiology is dependent on the age of the child. According to the survey the most common causes of neonatal, infantile, and toddler epilepsy are perinatal brain injury, congenital malformations of the central nervous system, and metabolic abnormalities. Central nervous system infections, hereditary epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases are more likely to affect newborn infants and their childhood seizures. Experts believe that pediatric epilepsy is basically similar to adult epilepsy, except that the types of epilepsy are different, with primary epilepsy predominating in children, accounting for 70% of cases, and secondary epilepsy in adults. There are also some epilepsies that occur only in children, such as infantile spasms, which occur in infancy.
They are not quite the same in terms of type, not quite the same in terms of etiology, and not quite the same in terms of healing and treatment details. 1. The symptoms of pediatric epilepsy gradually evolve as the brain grows, and the neural tissue differentiates like the roots of a tree, so that the connections between nerve cells also gradually form a network. The spread and limitations of the electrophysiology of pediatric epilepsy may also cause symptoms to evolve as these structures mature, but adult epilepsy symptoms are more stereotypical than those of children. The causes of pediatric epilepsy are more numerous than those of adults and are age-related, including congenital brain developmental malformations, congenital central nervous system infections, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, genetic metabolic abnormalities, head trauma, somatic (genetic) cerebrovascular disease, and brain tumors. 3. The category of epilepsy in pediatric patients has a special association with age. 4, some of the pediatric epilepsy is benign, from newborn infants to adolescents, there are different benign epilepsy in different age groups. These benign epilepsies have seizure symptoms that disappear automatically as they grow older. This is when parents can keep their children off medications or reduce their dependence on them. However, parents should not refuse to treat or take medication based on this, but should seek the advice of a specialist. 5. The brain tissue of children is constantly growing, while adults have completed their development. In addition to seizure symptoms, some children with epilepsy also have learning difficulties due to abnormal brain function. The first thing you need to do is to take care of the problem. The same patient with pediatric epilepsy can have different types of seizures, for example, some patients can have generalized tonic clonic seizures in addition to atypical aphasic, dystonic, and myoclonic seizures. In adult patients, the diagnosis can be based on the patient’s own details and eyewitness descriptions, whereas in young children and children, it is not easy to grasp the characteristics of the seizure and its focus during the diagnosis, especially regarding the prodromal symptoms. The treatment of epilepsy is still based on medical drugs, but adult patients are usually very cooperative with the treatment and take their medication regularly because they have a deep sense of pain. However, in children and young children, the treatment is completely dependent on the parents or guardians, so the timing of medication, intervals, and swallowing of medication all require assistance, so the effectiveness of medication varies for these reasons. Whether pediatric epilepsy can be effectively treated depends largely on the ability of the doctor (perhaps this is why so many parents travel so far to Beijing to see specialists?) The effectiveness of pediatric epilepsy treatment depends largely on the ability of the doctor (perhaps that’s why so many parents travel so far to Beijing to see a specialist? So parents must rationally choose the right doctor for their baby’s condition and work with the TA to do a good job of treatment.