Due to individual differences, there is no such thing as the fastest number of years for childhood benign epilepsy to stop, with most seizures stopping between 12 and 16 years of age.
Benign epilepsy in children is the most common type of epilepsy in children, accounting for 15 % to 20 % of epilepsy in childhood. Most of the cases are thought to be genetically related and age-dependent. It usually develops at the age of 2-14 years, with a peak at the age of 8-9 years, and is slightly more common in males than females. The prognosis of this disease is good, easy to control by drugs, growth and development are not affected, and most of the seizures stop before 12-16.
Benign epileptic seizures are closely related to sleep, most of them occur shortly after going to sleep and before waking up with focal seizures, most of them start from the mouth and face, such as increased saliva, laryngeal vocalization, mouth twitching, clear consciousness, but not active vocalization, etc. Some children soon followed by generalized tonic-clonic seizures and loss of consciousness. The psychomotor development is normal, and there is no abnormality on physical examination.
There is also a clinical variant of this syndrome, which is more complex and presents with epileptic electrical persistence during sleep. Although the seizures and epileptic discharges can still be relieved after puberty, cognitive dysfunction can be left behind in some of the children. Therefore, it is recommended to seek medical treatment as soon as symptoms occur.