Epilepsy is all genetic? Don’t be ridiculous! As we all know, Xuanwu Hospital is known for its expertise in combined neurological disorders of pregnancy, and I have received a lot of related questions in the background recently, so I’ll talk to you about epilepsy during pregnancy. A patient once waited for several hours in the waiting room, and when the clinic was almost over, she came carefully, locked the door of the clinic carefully, and said anxiously: “Doctor, I have epilepsy, will I pass it on to my child? How can I have a healthy baby without any problems? I don’t want many people to know, can you help me?” Epilepsy is an intermittent seizure disorder, therefore, the difference between epileptic patients and normal people is not visible when they are not having seizures. But when epilepsy meets with life events such as marriage and childbirth. The patient’s heart is filled with mixed feelings and fears that the baby will be born with epilepsy. Is epilepsy genetic in children? Is it the fault of the parents? Most epilepsy is not hereditary, but there are a few cases, especially congenital epilepsy and its syndromes, that are hereditary. Big statistics According to statistics, the incidence of epilepsy in the general population is: 0.5%. Among relatives of patients with primary epilepsy, the prevalence is 2%-6%, which is 4-7.2 times higher than the prevalence of epilepsy in the general population. Therefore, many friends believe that only primary epilepsy is inherited and secondary epilepsy is not. In fact, this perception is wrong. The prevalence of secondary epilepsy in family members is 2.5%, which is also higher than the general population, and the closer the blood relationship, the higher the prevalence.