June 28 is International Epilepsy Awareness Day. When people think of epilepsy, the first symptoms that come to mind are foaming at the mouth, convulsions, and loss of consciousness. However, the onset of epilepsy in some children is very subtle, and its harm should not be underestimated.
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Xiang Xiang is a junior high school student, and in the past year or two, parents and teachers often find him temporarily stunned, unconscious, and his expression is sluggish, and he will suddenly stop chatting. Song Jian, deputy director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Central Theater General Hospital, said that the symptoms lasted for nearly a year or two, and at first the family mistakenly thought that the child was just inattentive. It wasn't until one day that Xiangxiang suddenly had convulsions in his limbs during class, and his family rushed him to the hospital. After an electroencephalogram, the doctor determined that the child had a seizure and pointed out that a twitch of the limbs meant that there may have been multiple petit mal seizures and absence seizures before.
Director Song introduced that adolescent seizures must be taken seriously. When such seizures are frequent, they can reach several or even dozens of times a day, which seriously affects children's learning and memory ability and is not conducive to healthy growth. Clinically, the proportion of patients with epilepsy that begins in childhood is relatively high, on the one hand, it is caused by intrauterine hypoxia during pregnancy or childbirth, birth trauma, fetal congenital development or congenital metabolic abnormalities, craniocerebral trauma or brain inflammation; On the other hand, idiopathic epilepsy also tends to begin in childhood.
Director Song emphasized that frequent seizures will make children's development lag behind their peers, and there is a window period for brain development, once missed, it is difficult to recover damaged brain function in adulthood. Therefore, for childhood epilepsy, treatment should be more aggressive. Doctors remind that early detection and treatment of epilepsy are of great significance to the control of the disease. According to statistics, about 75% of patients can control or cure epilepsy with regular drug treatment, and about 25% of patients can be relieved by surgical treatment. Parents should be vigilant if they find that their children are often stunned, stunned, or even dropped objects for no reason. Director Song pointed out that if the child has such a situation three or four times a month, parents should take the child to the doctor, EEG is the gold standard for diagnosing epilepsy, and the EEG shows that there is a problem, which can be diagnosed.
On this International Epilepsy Care Day, let us pay attention to youth epilepsy and escort the healthy growth of children.