What are the symptoms of epilepsy in children

Epilepsy is what we commonly call epilepsy. It is a chronic disease of brain function. The symptoms manifested are different due to different sites of onset. If a patient suffers from epilepsy, it will basically be a long-term companion, and epilepsy is prone to recurring, which brings serious burden and pressure to both the patient and his family. Now let's understand what the symptoms of epilepsy are.

1. Early symptoms of epilepsy in children:

In the early stages of childhood epilepsy, children sweat excessively on their heads during feeding and sleeping. Excessive sweating causes local irritation, so children like to shake their heads. When you shake your head, the back of your head is rubbed, which causes hair loss over time. In addition, the child is restless and easily awakened during sleep.

2. Localized seizures of epilepsy in children:

Short paroxysmal twitches or numbness and tingling in one corner of the mouth, eyelid, fingers, toes, or one side of the face and extremities. The twitching may sometimes spread from the fingers to the upper limbs and then to the opposite side. Psychomotor seizures in childhood epilepsy. Symptoms of epilepsy in children are similar to absence seizures, but last longer than 1 minute. Or there may be various hallucinations, illusions, and unconscious movements, such as sucking, chewing, smacking lips, undressing, and unbuttoning.

3. Children with epileptic seizures:

Absence seizures are characterized by brief disturbances of consciousness that occur suddenly and stop suddenly, without tics. During an attack, the child patient will remain motionless, his face will be slightly pale, speech activities will cease, his hands will be unable to hold objects, and sometimes he will be unable to stand steadily. Onset usually occurs after 2 to 10 minutes.

4. Grand mal seizures in children:

Grand mal seizures, absence seizures, and psychotic forms are common. Grand mal seizures have the highest incidence rate. During an attack, there is sudden loss of consciousness, breathing stops, foaming at the mouth, twitching of the limbs, and possible tongue biting. The attack lasts for 1 to 5 minutes, and the patient falls asleep after the twitching stops. Headache and weakness after waking up, and no memory of the seizure are symptoms of epilepsy in children.