What is the difference between cerebral palsy and epilepsy

  Cerebral palsy and epilepsy are two different diseases. A lot of people think: cerebral palsy, the brain is paralyzed, and the whole person is a handicapped person! This is not true. Cerebral palsy is a movement disorder, which is caused by brain damage. This disorder is caused by brain damage, and it is characterized by different degrees of impairment and accompanying symptoms depending on the location of the brain damage and the area of damage. In some children, the brain injury is mild, the location is limited, the area of injury is small, and the performance is mildly impaired, such as late walking, poor posture, and good intelligence.  Some pediatric brain injuries are extensive, with severe symptoms, and are accompanied by impaired intelligence, epilepsy, visual impairment, and auditory impairment in addition to motor impairment.  Epilepsy is a recurrent overdischarge of neurons in the brain due to multiple causes causing sudden, temporary brain malfunction with dysfunction of consciousness, motor, mental or sensory functions.  The same causes that cause cerebral palsy can also cause epilepsy. Therefore, the incidence of epilepsy in children with cerebral palsy is many times higher than in children in general. More severe cerebral palsy is more likely to develop epilepsy, and milder cerebral palsy is less likely to develop epilepsy.  Whether it is cerebral palsy or epilepsy, the prognosis is related to the type and extent of the disease, early and aggressive diagnosis and treatment.