CHILDREN'S EPILEPSY
Disease information
CHILDREN'S EPILEPSY
The
epilepsy
is
a
disease
that generally, begins to
develop
in the
childhood
and that does not have an
origin
or
specific
cause,
but
that without
a
doubt causes much
tension
and
fear
to the parents or people near the
children
.
When the
epilepsy
initiates before the 18 years is considered of early beginning and it is associated to
development
problems
, when it appears after this age, is associated to
problems
acquired like traumas or blows,
tumors
or
cerebral
vascular
disease
.
Generally, the
children
prone to
develop
epilepsy
can experience his first convulsion during some viral
disease
and / or when presenting / displaying fever.
Between the
common
symptoms of the infantile
epilepsy
it is the presentation of convulsions that are affected in the
morning
without apparent reason during the first hours and that are accompanied with sensation by I am annoying.
Before an
attack
or crisis, sometimes changes of humor, irritability,
headache
usually appear and some subtle changes of the personality, which stops many parents, are
a
great aid to predict events and to be able to prepare to take care of them suitably since once initiated they are not possible to be stopped,
but
solely to control the external factors that could represent
a
danger during the crisis.
The
primary
treatment of
children
with
epilepsy
is fundamentally with medicines anti - convulsivantes, nevertheless exists also
a
treatment known like Stimulation of the Vague Nerve, that
has
turned out to be very effective and it is based on the use of the
system
NeuroCybernetic Prótesis, that consists of the positioning of
a
generator of pulses, with
bipolar
cables, twig programmer and magnets to maintain with the hands and that it
has
like purpose of controlling the intensity of the convulsions.
Also it is important for the tranquillity of the parents, the knowledge that not all the convulsions that appear during the
childhood
are by
epilepsy
, since many diverse upheavals that although there is to take care of, the majority is not of gravity and can originate them. Among them they are
cardiovascular
who can be due from
espasmos
of the sob caused by tempers and uncontrollable weeping, to
problems
by
muscular
alterations of the dream and, síncopes or faints, tics, migrañas,
fear
, effects of some medicines, envenenamientos, blows and other
problems
more.
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