Early symptoms of epilepsy in children

There is no such thing as early symptoms of epilepsy in children, only seizures or no seizures. According to the symptoms of the seizure, it can be divided into to: 1, motor symptoms that is usually common tonicity, hand tremor, spasm, head tilt, no power, sudden fall, daze, etc., all belong to the motor symptoms; 2, non-motor symptoms, the patient’s perceptual, attentional, emotional, memory, executive function suddenly disappeared, sudden daze, or occasionally daze, but also to be alert to the presence of non-motor symptoms; 3, autonomic symptoms, such as Suddenly found that the child’s face red, vomiting, diarrhea, cold sweat all over the body, pupil narrowing, should also be alert to the presence of autonomic symptoms. Motor symptoms in the clinical patients can pay attention to. Be alert to epilepsy with no clinical symptoms, such as disoriented epilepsy suddenly appearing to freeze, occurring in children aged 4-8 years old, often briefly froze, occurring when going up and down the stairs, running, playing, wheezing, or when reading, suddenly straighten the two eyes, calling out, sometimes eyelids blinking non-stop for ten or dozens of seconds, and also occurring in the classroom, and the teacher will think that the child is distracted in class. Because of the frequent seizures lead to inattention, so that the child’s academic performance decline, however, this symptom is often ignored by parents and teachers, thus delaying the diagnosis and treatment. When you find that your child’s behavior or consciousness is different from usual, suddenly dazed and out of breath, you must be alert to the fact that the patient is catatonic epilepsy, and go to the hospital for an EEG in time.