Neonates can have spasticity, an epileptic syndrome that occurs in infancy and is divided into Ohtahara syndrome and infantile spasms.
1. Ohtahara syndrome: Newborns and small infants start the disease, often manifested as tonic spasmodic seizures, can also be focal motor seizures. The prognosis is generally poor, and it is often accompanied by severe mental retardation. The electroencephalogram (EEG) shows recurrent bursts of high-amplitude slow waves and spike waves followed by a flat inhibitory wave.
2. Infantile spasms: onset in infancy, characterized by frequent tonic spasmodic seizures, mostly accompanied by psychomotor developmental backwardness, with a poor prognosis, and can be transformed into other forms of seizures. The EEG may show peak dysrhythmic EEG.
When a newborn baby has spasticity, parents must pay attention to it, take the newborn baby to the doctor in time, and carry out the corresponding treatment under the guidance of professional doctors, so as not to miss the condition.