What are the symptoms of epilepsy in children

Update Date: 2025-05-25 Source: Network

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Recently, our child has not been talkative and is always stuffy. I found that his hands and feet are out of control and he has been twitching, so I was very worried. I took the child to the hospital for examination. The doctor said it was Capricorn fever and needed to be hospitalized as soon as possible. Today, let me talk to you about the symptoms of children's epilepsy.

What are the symptoms of epilepsy in children

Symptom 1: Children's epilepsy symptoms have partial body muscle or limb convulsions. Sudden loss of consciousness, apnea, mouth foaming, mydriasis and other symptoms, children's symptoms of epilepsy have varying degrees of disturbance of consciousness, after attack can have drowsiness, psychomotor type mainly shows oropharyngeal movement or visceral symptoms.

Symptom 2: the common symptoms of epilepsy in children are large seizures, absence seizures and benign epilepsy in children. During the major attack, the child suddenly lost consciousness, apnea, blue complexion, dilated pupils, stiff limbs, clenched hands, and then turned into paroxysmal convulsions, foaming at the mouth. The attack generally lasted for 1-5 minutes.

Symptom 3: the children with minor attack of absence show sudden loss of consciousness, interruption of activity, staring or turning up, but do not fall, do not twitch, lasting for 1 to 10 seconds, and recover consciousness quickly after attack. Benign epileptic seizures in children are usually accompanied by twitch of one side, lip and tongue, which may be accompanied by abnormal sensation of the part, inability to speak, salivation, clear mind, and frequent seizures at night.

matters needing attention

There are many types of children's epilepsy disease, there are major attacks, but also nervous attacks, so the examination is very important, to determine what the disease is after the child's examination, then we need to symptomatic treatment, the treatment of this disease also need to give the child to take diazepam to calm the child's mood.