What are the early symptoms of epilepsy in children?

Epilepsy is a popular name for the disease, which actually means epilepsy. Also known as epilepsy, this is a relatively harmful disease. From the cause point of view, it is mainly because of abnormal biological discharges in the neurons of the brain, which can cause disorders in the brain's nerve function. It is a relatively common chronic disease, especially for children. It is easy to have such symptoms when they are young. When the disease suddenly occurs, there will often be loss of consciousness, which will cause headaches, abdominal pain and other pains, and even secondary brain tumors. It is easy to cause infection and trauma. It also has a great impact on the IQ of children. Every time the disease occurs, the symptoms will become more serious. Therefore, parents must take their children for treatment in time.

1. Absence seizure (petit mal seizure):

Sudden interruption of mental activity, loss of consciousness, and may be accompanied by myoclonus or automatism. Each attack lasts from a few seconds to more than ten seconds. The electroencephalogram shows a spike-slow or sharp-slow wave complex 3 times per second.

2. Autonomic seizures (early symptoms of diencephalic epilepsy):

There may be headache type, abdominal pain type, limb pain type, syncope type or cardiovascular attack. Epilepsy without a clear cause is primary epilepsy, and epilepsy caused by intracranial tumors, trauma, infection, parasitic diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, systemic metabolic diseases, etc. is secondary epilepsy.

3. Generalized tonic-clonic seizure (grand mal seizure):

Sudden loss of consciousness, followed by tonic and then clonic seizures. It is often accompanied by screaming, cyanosis, urinary incontinence, tongue biting, white or bloody foam at the mouth, and dilated pupils. After lasting for tens of seconds or minutes, the convulsion stops naturally and the patient enters a coma. After waking up, there is a short period of dizziness, irritability, and fatigue, and the patient cannot recall the entire process of the attack. If the seizure continues and the patient remains in a coma, it is called a grand mal seizure, which is often life-threatening.

Fourth, the early symptoms of this type of epilepsy belong to simple partial seizures:

A tonic or clonic seizure in a certain part or one side of the limbs, or an attack of paresthesia, which lasts for a short time and the patient is conscious. If the seizure extends along the motor area to other limbs or the whole body, it may be accompanied by loss of consciousness, which is called a Jackson seizure. After the attack, the affected limb may be temporarily paralyzed, which is called Todd's palsy.

5. Complex partial seizures (psychomotor seizures):

Psychosomatic, psychomotor and mixed seizures. Most of them have varying degrees of impaired consciousness and obvious thinking, perception, emotion and psychomotor disorders. There may be manifestations of automatism such as fugue and sleepwalking. Sometimes, under the control of hallucinations and delusions, violent behaviors such as hurting others and self-injury may occur.