Question
Does frequent shaking and twitching in children indicate epilepsy? Can head trauma cause epilepsy?
Answer
Common causes of fever-related seizures include high fever seizures, epidemic encephalitis, various purulent meningitis, tuberculous meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, other viral meningitis, toxic encephalopathy, neonatal tetanus, brain abscess, epilepsy, hypertensive encephalopathy, and poisoning. Diseases that can cause seizures without fever or low-grade seizures include intracranial hemorrhage, brain development abnormalities or malformations, severe brain hypoxia, infantile tetany, hypoglycemia, uremia, hepatic coma, infantile convulsions, epilepsy, brain tumors, hypertensive encephalopathy, and poisoning. The symptoms of epilepsy primarily manifest as convulsions, fainting, and pallor. Many people believe that convulsions are a sign of epilepsy. But is that true? Convulsions are one of the symptoms of epilepsy but not an exclusive symptom. Other diseases can also cause convulsions, such as hysterical convulsions, hypocalcemic convulsions, infantile high fever seizures, and hypoglycemic seizures, which do not belong to epilepsy.