What are the symptoms and preventive measures of infantile myoclonus?

Infantile myoclonus is a relatively common disease. It is necessary for parents to understand the symptoms and preventive measures of infantile myoclonus! So what are the symptoms and preventive measures of infantile myoclonus? Next, this article will introduce the symptoms and preventive measures of infantile myoclonus. Friends who want to know more about the relevant knowledge can continue reading!

1. Bowing spasm: It is characterized by a sudden onset of brief whole-body muscle spasm, with the neck, trunk and legs bending, adducting or abducting, and the arms stretching forward and outward in a hugging shape.

2. Nodding spasm: Nodding spasm occurs.

3. Lightning spasm: It lasts for a very short time and is difficult to detect if you don’t pay attention.

Patients with myoclonic epilepsy may experience sudden single twitches of the head, neck, limbs, or trunk muscles, sometimes only one muscle or certain muscle groups twitching. The twitch is followed by immediate relaxation, which can be on one or both sides. Mild myoclonus may affect only the head or hands. Twitching of the upper limbs may cause objects in the hands to be dropped or thrown. In more serious cases, the whole body is affected and the person may suddenly lose balance and fall while standing. When sitting, you can jump out from your seat. Therefore, this type of patients often have scars on the forehead, nose tip, lips, etc. Usually, the attack occurs once or several times within a few seconds. It is more common before going to bed or just after waking up, or it may even be a persistent state. Myoclonic seizures often occur after one twitch, followed by several consecutive twitches after a few seconds. It is most likely to occur just before falling asleep or just before waking up. Therefore, it is sometimes misdiagnosed as hysteria.

The prevention of infantile myoclonus should be approached from many aspects. The cause of idiopathic infantile myoclonus is still unknown, and further research is needed to find ways to prevent it. Prevention of symptomatic infantile myoclonus should pay attention to the following aspects:

1. Pay attention to perinatal health care. Protect the fetus and newborn from hypoxia, birth trauma, infection, etc., and pay special attention to preventing neonatal asphyxia and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

2. Actively prevent and treat high fever convulsions. Sufficient attention should be paid to febrile convulsions in infants and young children, and convulsions should be prevented as much as possible; when an attack occurs, medication should be used immediately to control it.

3. Actively prevent various diseases of the children's nervous system, provide timely treatment and reduce sequelae.

4. Prevent biochemical metabolic disorders.

5. Provide good genetic counseling. For some serious genetic diseases that cause epilepsy, genetic counseling can be performed, and some can undergo prenatal diagnosis or newborn screening to determine the necessity of termination of pregnancy or early treatment.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms and preventive measures of infantile myoclonus. I believe that after reading the above introduction, you will have a very good understanding of the symptoms and prevention measures of infantile myoclonus. This knowledge can help us better understand and prevent the disease of infantile myoclonus. I hope the above introduction will be helpful to you.