What are the causes of benign epilepsy in children?

Epilepsy is a very scary disease that has a great impact on people's lives. When epilepsy occurs, the patient will show convulsions in the limbs and foaming at the mouth, which is very scary. Epilepsy is relatively common among children, but most of them are benign epilepsy, and the harm to the body is within a controllable range. Let's take a look at the causes of benign epilepsy in children.

Benign childhood epilepsy refers to a type of epilepsy syndrome that occurs at a certain age, has certain characteristic clinical manifestations and electroencephalograms, can be relieved on its own or is effectively treated with anti-epileptic drugs, and has a good prognosis.

1. Congenital brain malformations, such as lissencephaly, pachygyria, polymicrogyria, gray matter heterotopia, brain perforation, congenital hydrocephalus, corpus callosum dysgenesis, arachnoid cysts, microcephaly, megalencephaly, etc.

2. Neurocutaneous syndrome: The most common ones are tuberous sclerosis, neurofibromatosis and cerebral trigeminal angiomatosis.

3. Genetic metabolic diseases, such as phenylketonuria, hyperammonemia, cerebral lipidosis, vitamin B6 dependence, etc.

4. Perinatal brain damage mainly includes birth trauma, asphyxia, intracranial hemorrhage, hypoxia, and ischemic encephalopathy. Among them, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy leading to epilepsy is the most common.

5. Intracranial infection: such as bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis, brain abscess, fungal meningitis, brain parasitic diseases, post-vaccination encephalitis, post-infectious encephalitis, etc.

6. Nutritional metabolic disorders and endocrine diseases, common ones include hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, vitamin B6 deficiency, and hypothyroidism.

7. Cerebrovascular disease: such as cerebral vascular malformation, intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral vasculitis, cerebral infarction, etc.

8. Trauma: Intracranial hemorrhage, skull fracture, cerebral contusion, etc. caused by trauma can all cause epilepsy, but the incidence rate is related to the degree and location of the injury.

Understanding the causes of epilepsy is of great significance for successful treatment. The reason why many people do not receive treatment in time is mostly because they do not have a comprehensive understanding of the causes of the disease. Jingxin Anxijie Decoction is a pure Chinese herbal preparation with remarkable therapeutic effect. It can help you quickly get rid of the pain of epilepsy and regain your health and happiness.