Question
What are the causes of child seizures?
Answer
(1) Genetic Factors: The children of epilepsy patients have a 5% chance of developing epilepsy. (2) Trauma and Low Immunity: Trauma and frequent colds and fevers in some infants can sometimes trigger epilepsy. (3) Nutritional Metabolic Diseases: Hypoglycemia, diabetic coma, vitamin B6 deficiency, hyperthyroidism, and others can all cause recurrent epilepsy. (4) Poisoning: Lead, coal gas, pesticides, and systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, acute nephritis, and uremia can all trigger recurrent epilepsy. (5) Amniotic Fluid Aspiration and Fetal Asphyxia, Nuchal Cord Circumvention, Placental Abruption, Placenta Previa, Cord Prolapse, Cesarean Section, etc., can significantly increase the incidence of subsequent illness. (6) Birth Injuries: Common factors or causes of symptomatic epilepsy in infants and young children include forceps delivery, vacuum extraction, malpresentation of the fetus, abnormal position of the fetus, macrosomia of the fetus, prolonged labor, and advanced maternal age. (7) Brain Diseases: Brain maldevelopment, delayed brain development, brain atrophy, various encephalitis and meningitis cases compiled by medical education websites, and post-infectious epilepsy in patients with brain abscess; cerebral blood flukes and brain cysticercosis can cause epilepsy. (8) Congenital Factors: Congenital brain malformations, hydrocephalus, chromosomal abnormalities, and other congenital diseases, as well as damage to the fetus before birth in the mother’s womb, can cause abnormal brain development and recurrent epilepsy after birth. This includes injuries to the pregnant woman’s abdomen, uterine bleeding during pregnancy, ultraviolet radiation exposure, taking harmful drugs to the fetus during pregnancy, various microorganisms especially rubella virus, measles virus, and toxoplasmosis infections.