Treatment of pediatric epilepsy

Pediatric epilepsy treatment is divided into pharmacological treatment, surgical treatment, and dietary treatment such as ketogenic diet treatment, as common clinical treatments, as follows: 1, pharmacological treatment, that is, the choice of antiepileptic drugs, antiepileptic drugs began to be used before the 1980s, usually less than ten antiepileptic drugs, with relatively large side effects. In recent years, with the development of medicine, antiepileptic drugs have developed rapidly, adding more than ten kinds of antiepileptic drugs, and the side effects, especially on cognition, are relatively small, and there are more common choices of drugs; 2, surgical treatment, epileptic lesion excision surgery requires a clear lesion site, palliative surgery for lesion is not clear, the lesion is more serious or in very important parts can be carried out palliative surgery, such as hippocampal resection or other surgeries. There is also a surgical procedure, the latest application is phytoblocking; 3. Ketogenic diet therapy, the treatment is a dietary therapy, through the ketogenic diet to change the body structure, metabolic condition, so as to produce inhibitory treatment, is the treatment means used for refractory epilepsy.