Question
What factors lead to juvenile epilepsy? My relative’s child is 15 years old this year and has a very bad temper. The main issue is that the child has epilepsy and is not mentally normal. The family doesn’t know how to seek help: What factors lead to juvenile epilepsy?
Answer
Generational inheritance factors are associated with the causes of juvenile epilepsy. A small portion of epilepsy indeed has a generational inheritance component, but it is not very certain. Experiments on identical twins suffering from epilepsy have proven that epilepsy patients have a predisposition to generational inheritance. Predictions based on family history of epilepsy patients and epidemiological studies show that the prevalence of familial epilepsy in patients with sporadic epilepsy ranges from 3.8% to 10.8%, with some as high as 19.8% to 35%. This is significantly lower than the 1% to 4.6% prevalence of symptomatic epilepsy, which is also higher than the 0.3% to 0.6% prevalence in the general population, and the closer the blood relation, the higher the incidence rate.