What causes children to twitch while sleeping?

Children are generally restless when they sleep, but parents should pay attention if they find them twitching while sleeping. There are many reasons for convulsions. It may be caused by fever, it may be caused by low blood sugar, and calcium deficiency in children can also lead to poor and unstable sleep. Another possibility is epileptic seizure. This is the time to pay attention. When you find your child twitching while sleeping, no matter how serious it is, you need to take him to see a doctor to feel at ease.

Introduction

It is abnormal for children to twitch while sleeping at night. According to experts, there are many types of childhood benign epilepsy with central-temporal spikes, generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy during wakefulness, and epilepsy with continuous spikes during slow-wave sleep. Recent studies have shown that frontal lobe epilepsy also occurs more frequently during sleep. A typical example is autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, in which seizures almost always occur during sleep at night. Certain special epileptic discharge patterns are also common during sleep, such as electrical status epilepticus during sleep (ESES). ESES can be seen in multiple epilepsy syndromes, such as epilepsy with sustained spikes during slow-wave sleep, benign epilepsy in children with central-temporal spikes, Landau-Kleffner syndrome (acquired epileptic aphasia), etc.

Once sleep epilepsy is diagnosed, regular anti-epileptic treatment is generally required, otherwise repeated attacks may affect neuropsychiatric functions. Other sleep disorders, such as night terrors and nightmares, generally do not require special treatment and are mostly self-limiting. Although some sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and OSAS (obstructive sleep apnea syndrome) require medication or device intervention, the prognosis is mostly good. Therefore, the understanding of sleep-related epilepsy mainly lies in the differential diagnosis from other common sleep disorders to avoid incorrect treatment.

Notice

Except for the possibility of epilepsy. There are two conditions that are pathological convulsions, please note:

1. Calcium deficiency: The specific manifestations are sweating and occipital protrusion. If occipital protrusion appears, it is a typical calcium deficiency. Generally speaking, children should be fed cod liver oil and calcium supplements one week after birth to make up for the calcium needed for their physical growth, otherwise they will suffer from calcium deficiency.

2. Brain damage: If the child's convulsions are accompanied by involuntary mouth and eye tilt, this may be caused by brain damage. Kind tips

It has been found in clinical practice that epilepsy is a common disease that causes children to have nocturnal convulsions. It is difficult to determine which condition the child is in based on a one-sided description. For this reason, it is recommended that parents take their children to a standard hospital for examination as soon as possible to help determine whether it is an abnormal phenomenon and take timely measures. But it cannot be denied that it may also be an early manifestation of epilepsy. If you have epilepsy, the earlier you seek treatment, the better.