Thursday, March 6, 2008

What is the treatment of benign epilepsy?

Children benign epilepsy, is in a particular stage of clinical manifestations and EEG have certain characteristics, able to ease or antiepileptic drug treatment better, the prognosis is good one type of epilepsy syndrome. Benign epilepsy in children with the following features : (a) occurred in 2 ~ 14 years old, 6-to 10-year-old, 3-year-old and 12-year-old after a rare, generally stop before the age of 15; (2) 70% occurred in his sleep, a generalized tonic - clonic seizure or facial twitches, drooling, sputum Ming and as a part of the disappearing minority in a state of awakening under attack; (3) characteristics of an attack side muscle rigidity or jerks, drooling, and a few of the trunk feeling symptoms, such as the side of the cheek and gum. tongue or lips feel abnormal, occasionally can be expanded to the face, upper limbs, consciousness, language suspend the attack lasted a short time, Seizure frequency different neurological examination was normal, normal intelligence; (4) the typical EEG performance for the temporal area and the central area duplex higher amplitude spikes or sharp wave after wave of, and then slow to single or clustered emergence of a normal background, to the side, but also to bilateral, but also from side to the other side. Spikes not both synchronous spike and wave patterns and the frequency of clinical seizures is not parallel. Spikes due to the volatility associated with the age and state of the Cox sleep, but also when to sleep, Therefore, in clinical suspicion of the disease, should be doing sleep-inducing test. Clinical common benign epilepsy in children : (1) with occipital region spikes in children with benign partial epilepsy; (2) not typical of children with benign partial epilepsy; (3) with both sides three times / sec spikes children Zhuaice benign paroxysmal epilepsy; (4) feelings of pediatric epilepsy benign; (5) the neonatal convulsions and other benign.

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