How to determine benign epilepsy in children?

Epilepsy is a brain nerve disease that has a great impact on the patient's behavior. Once epilepsy occurs, the patient will suffer from blurred consciousness, uncontrolled tremors, etc. In recent years, there have been more and more cases of childhood epilepsy, which has brought great trauma to countless families. Childhood epilepsy can be divided into malignant and benign. Let's take a look at how to determine benign childhood epilepsy.

Epilepsy is a chronic disease that will recur. The incidence of epilepsy in children is very high. Patients with epilepsy must take medication for a long time. Once the medication is stopped, it will cause another attack, and each time it will be more serious than the last. During the attack, it is often accompanied by screaming and foaming at the mouth, which will endanger their own life safety. In the most serious cases, loss of consciousness will occur.

Symptoms of benign epilepsy in children

1. Benign affective epilepsy in children: The disease starts at the age of 3 to 10 years old. The attacks are mainly characterized by emotional symptoms such as panic and shouting. There may be automatic symptoms such as chewing and swallowing. There is no loss of consciousness. The attacks stop before the age of 15.

2. Atypical benign partial epilepsy in children: the onset age is 2 to 6 years old. The nervous system develops normally before and after the onset of the disease, and the seizure forms include partial motor seizures during sleep or waking up in the early morning, absences, transient atonia and myoclonus.

3. Benign familial neonatal epilepsy: It is a familial disease, which usually starts within 2 to 3 days to several weeks. Some individuals may have frequent seizures 3 months after birth. The seizures are partial or systemic, manifested as clonic, tonic convulsions or respiratory apnea.

4. Benign juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: It occurs in adolescence and has a genetic tendency. The seizures are manifested as myoclonic twitches of the limbs. They often occur in the morning when waking up or after a nap. They occur spontaneously and frequently, especially when tired. They disappear during sleep and there is no consciousness disorder. They can be induced by sound, light, and sleep deprivation. The prognosis is good.

5. Benign toric epilepsy in children: It starts in late childhood or adolescence. 25% of patients have a family history of epilepsy. Seizures often occur when waking up from sleep, with the eyes, head, or trunk turning to one side. Sometimes it expands to a generalized seizure lasting 5 to 15 seconds, and may sometimes be accompanied by other seizures.