Question

I have been experiencing limb spasms and staring spells for several years now. I have visited many hospitals for treatment before, and after treatment, I don’t feel like eating. I want to ask: How should I be treated, and can this disease be cured?

Answer

Although the causes of pediatric epilepsy are complex, with the advancement of medical technology, most causes have been identified. From an etiological perspective, epilepsy can be divided into two main categories:

  1. Idiopathic Epilepsy This type of epilepsy accounts for 20% of all epilepsy patients and has no clear cause, often related to genetics, hence also known as cryptogenic epilepsy or genetic epilepsy.
  2. Secondary Epilepsy or Symptomatic Epilepsy (1) Congenital brain developmental abnormalities, such as lissencephaly and macroencephaly. (2) Neurocutaneous syndromes, the most common being tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis. (3) Genetic metabolic diseases, such as phenylketonuria. (4) Perinatal brain injury, including birth trauma and asphyxia. (5) Intracranial infection, such as bacterial meningitis. (6) Nutritional metabolism disorders and endocrine diseases, such as hypoglycemia. (7) Cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral vascular malformations. (8) Trauma, such as cerebral contusion. (9) Complex high fever convulsions followed by brain injury. (10) Brain tumor