Can childhood absence epilepsy be cured?

Childhood catatonic epilepsy can be cured and has a very high cure rate. Childhood catatonic epilepsy is characterized by typical catatonic seizures, also known as petit mal seizures. Seizure is being carried out during the action suddenly stop, the patient’s eyes are dull, godless, like a freeze, but can not be awakened, the hands of the object will sometimes fall, but the patient will not fall, the duration of the seizure is only a few seconds, after regaining consciousness, the patient will continue to carry out the action just now, there is no memory of the process of the seizure, the seizure can be hundreds of times a day. The patient’s seizures do not affect the brain very much, and can be controlled with medication, preferred ethosuximide or sodium valproate, with good therapeutic effects. A few patients, even without treatment, will have their symptoms relieved on their own in adulthood, and most of the patients who have been treated can be cured, with no after-effects left behind, and will not suffer from another seizure.