How to judge whether the baby has epilepsy

Epilepsy, commonly known as "epilepsy" or "epilepsy", is a kind of paroxysmal, sudden, recurrent, transient brain disorders caused by abnormal discharge of brain neurons.
　　 1、 Causes of epilepsy in babies
There are many reasons for baby epilepsy, the common reasons are as follows:
　　 1. Pre birth factors: Genetic metabolic diseases, congenital brain structural abnormalities, intrauterine infection, and mothers with diabetes, chronic nephritis or improper drug use, etc;
　　 2. Factors at birth: Such as dystocia, birth injury, hypoxia, jaundice, infection, premature birth, etc;
　　 3. Postnatal factors: Primary infection of central nervous system, brain trauma, cardiovascular malformation, hypertensive encephalopathy, hemorrhagic disease, poisoning, etc.
　　 2、 How to judge whether the baby has epilepsy
Whether the baby has epilepsy can be identified according to the inquiry. If the baby has a history of birth injury, asphyxia, intracranial hemorrhage, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy or family history of epilepsy, the incidence of epilepsy is higher. Children with epilepsy usually have typical symptoms of nodding, lightning like, bow like spasm, often accompanied by scream, cyanosis, tongue bite, foaming or blood foam, pupil dilation and so on. Part of the baby can also appear dizziness, upper abdominal discomfort, audio-visual and olfactory disorders, blurred consciousness, irregular and uncoordinated movements, such as sucking, chewing, searching, shouting and other performances. Once the baby appears the above symptoms, it is necessary to take the baby to the hospital for further examination and diagnosis. The specific inspection items are as follows:
　　 (1) EEG: The activity status and changes of children in different periods were accurately mastered;
　　 (2) CT and MRI: To find out whether the brain structure is abnormal, such as brain malformation, intracranial calcification, etc;
　　 (3) Positron emission tomography (PET) and single light emission tomography (SPECT) were used To understand the changes of brain function and to help localize epilepsy.
　　 3、 How does baby epilepsy treat
The specific treatment methods are as follows:
　　 1. Drug therapy: At present, the treatment of epilepsy is mainly drug therapy. Most of epilepsy patients can be controlled after regular antiepileptic drug treatment, such as carbamazepine and oxcarbazepril;
　　 2. Neuromodulation therapy: 1 The treatment of vagus nerve stimulation is mainly suitable for patients with intractable epilepsy that can not be controlled by antiepileptic drugs, and those who are not suitable for craniotomy or are unwilling to accept craniotomy;
　　 3. Surgical treatment: For intractable epilepsy, stereotactic surgery, anterior corpus callosum incision or chronic cerebellar stimulation can be used to destroy the areas related to epilepsy.
　　 4、 Precautions for baby epilepsy
In daily life, parents should pay attention to the following points to prevent the seizure of baby epilepsy:
1. Take a rest on time to ensure adequate sleep and avoid staying up late and fatigue;
2. Light diet, eat more fruits and vegetables, avoid coffee, cola and other exciting drinks and spicy food;
3. Take medicine on time and regularly and follow up in outpatient department regularly;
4. Pay close attention to children to avoid febrile convulsion and head injury.