What is the treatment for absence epilepsy in children?

If a person falls to the ground with convulsions all over his body, it is called epilepsy in the north. Clinically, this so-called epilepsy is actually epilepsy, and the patients are usually very young, some are even less than ten years old. Don't underestimate this disease, because it can really put people's lives in danger, so once you get sick, you must get treatment immediately. So, what are the treatments for absence epilepsy in children?

Causes of Disease

Clearly a genetic predisposition.

There are many factors that lead to childhood absence epilepsy. Childhood absence epilepsy is an idiopathic systemic epilepsy syndrome that begins in childhood and has typical absence as the main seizure type. Genetic factors play an important role in the etiology of childhood absence epilepsy. Some patients with childhood absence epilepsy are also related to brain trauma, central nervous system infection, etc.

Eating and drinking excessively without restraint leads to indigestion, which in turn causes the body's acid-base imbalance and abnormal cell metabolism, leading to recurrence of epilepsy. Through the analysis of the causes of childhood epilepsy, parents will know not to let children with a history of epilepsy consume too much salt, because if they eat too much salt, they will naturally drink more water, which will put a heavy burden on the diencephalon and easily induce the disease invisibly.

In addition, spicy food, alcohol, strong tea, coffee, chocolate with liquor filling, secondhand smoke, etc. may cause epileptic seizures in children. However, it does not mean that the less the child eats and drinks, the better. The most important premise is that the child should not be hungry or lack water. The child does not need to take special nutritional medicines or strictly avoid certain foods.

Children who do not get enough sleep, especially within half an hour after going to bed or within a short period of time before waking up, will have about twice as many seizures and discharges during sleep as during the day.

Excessive fatigue, hyperventilation, excessive drinking, fright, anger, tension, impulse, high fever, long-term use of anti-epileptic drugs in children and sudden reduction or discontinuation of medication, stimulation from watching TV for a long time, and the use of certain adverse drugs are all factors that induce epilepsy in children.

Epilepsy needs to be treated early. Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease that requires long-term treatment. In addition, patients should develop good living habits, stop smoking and drinking, learn more about common sense, and exercise appropriately to enhance their own resistance, face their own condition, and actively treat it.

Diagnostic tests

EEG showed bilateral synchronous and symmetrical 3 Hz spike-slow waves (sometimes irregular), normal background activity, and hyperventilation easily induced epileptic discharges or even seizures. The prognosis is good, most cases recover, and a few cases develop GTCS after puberty, but very rarely there are absence seizures.

Treatment options

It responds well to ethosuximide, sodium valproate, and lamotrigine.