Epilepsy is a disease that affects all ages and from all races and communities, and interfere genetic factors and different environmental with the emergence of some form. Epilepsy is a chronic disease in children, may result in recurrence of seizures and development of non-treatment to the mental and intellectual difficulties of the child, leading to delayed child curriculum and the occurrence of psychological problems to the victim and his family. Therefore, attention must be early detection and accurate diagnosis of the disease and treatment are to accelerate the child grows and develops and integrates in his community.
From this point you collect the questions that are repeated often on the lips of parents of the child victim and his family, has to respond to these inquiries of two people with experience in the field of child neurology, namely (a. d. Ali Omar Cabt, a. d. Mohamed Mohamed Saeed Jan) University College of Medicine, King Abdul-Aziz, to be of help to families in the handling and care of epileptic children.
Q 1: What is chaos? What is the difference between him and epilepsy?
A: The tension is the occurrence of a temporary and sudden changes in movement or sensation, as a result of increased activity of a group of neurons is normal, and epileptic seizures is repeated twice more, but at different times may be separated by days or months.
Q2: Is epilepsy hereditary disease?
A: Genetics play an important role, but not all cases of epilepsy caused by a hereditary disease, but as a result of genetic factors and environmental factors in different and overlapping.
Q 3: Is epilepsy a contagious disease?
A: No.
Q4: At what age a child is epilepsy?
A: Epilepsy does not have a specific age in which humans become infected, but there are different types of epilepsy affects children at different ages.
Q5: Is the mother of measles when she was pregnant cause injury to her son's epilepsy?
A: If measles struck the mother in the early months of pregnancy may result in adverse effects on the fetus, as it does not affect the nervous system, but may affect the heart and hearing and sight as well.
Q 6: During the birth received a shortage of oxygen to my baby, and is now a quadriplegic, and sometimes hit by strange movements, will be Sra these movements?
A: About 40% of children with cerebral palsy develop seizures, which can be treated with medication for epilepsy.
Q 7: My son is lying in the hospital and said he has meningitis, can be infected with epilepsy?
A: Not all cases of meningitis caused epilepsy, but some cases may be complications of epilepsy, especially if the delay of therapeutic intervention.
Q 8: My son fell from a height, and Astafrg and lost consciousness for a full day and a month later started cramping Does he need treatment?
A: This is one of the cases that need continuous treatment for a period of one to two years after the convulsions stopped completely, and cases of convulsion when falling down and minor head injury without loss of consciousness, they do not need to treat epilepsy.
Q9: My son plays video games and get epilepsy, is there a relationship?
A: Yes, there is a relationship, but a rare case when the child reaches a certain stage in the game, where the frequencies of light and shapes drawn very fast, but in most cases, there is no relationship between these games and epilepsy.
Q 10: My child has edema in the head and there is a tube for the withdrawal of spinal fluid from the brain to the abdomen, but still cramping why?
A: The process of developing the tube relieve pressure on the brain and spinal fluid pool reduces the brain, but does not address the cramping, but the child needs medical treatment for the patient to control epilepsy.
Q 11: Sometimes I notice that my daughter's body began to tremble when you wake up from sleep, or want to sleep with you then the cramps?
A: If your child's normal growth and development of these tremors occur to children in cases that I mentioned is normal.
Q 12: My son is one year old, and cry whenever it becomes the color blue, and his body began to tremble, and lost consciousness Is this epilepsy?
A: Sometimes when I watch some of the children, they stop breathing for a few moments, so it becomes the color blue and occur vibrating body, but not convulsions, which decreases with the passage of time does not affect mental abilities in the future and called these cases (retention of breath).
Q 13: My child three years old, sometimes after sleep for two or three hours he wakes up scared and screaming and crying hard and difficult for us to calm him down, Are these spasms?
A: No, this is a well known case of bad dreams that occur for the natural children of the age of 18 months to 5 years, and planning of the brain of these children is normal, do not need a medicine for spasm.
Q 14: Is there a possible relationship between headache and epilepsy?
A: Yes, there is a relationship, seizure may strike accompanied or sometimes followed by severe headache, as well as the headaches associated with brain tumors, (which is rare in children) may accompany epilepsy, as well as migraine (migraine), in some cases difficult to be differentiated from epilepsy, especially migraine associated with the effects of Kcll hand side or the man.
Q 15: The school says that my daughter, 8 year old stray mind during the lesson, has been observed by some late lessons Is it possible to have the cramps?
A: Yes, it is possible that cases Sarhan (distracted) some kind of reactions, such cases are known in children and occur several times a day for a few seconds is very simple, and can be diagnosed on the work of the planning of the brain, an easy treatment.
Q 16: 12-year-old daughter, suffering from epilepsy and needed medication use, but noted that the more tired she slept late or get her an epileptic seizure ... Why?
A: Yes, there is a type of epilepsy affects more girls than boys, and fatigue and lack of sleep to help a seizure as I mentioned, so you must sleep on a regular basis.
Q 17: What is the impact of cold and high temperature in a patient with epilepsy?
A: high body temperature may increase patient susceptibility to epilepsy seizure occurs, and there is a special kind of seizures so-called (heat cramps), usually associated with high temperature, and must then check with your doctor to find out why the heat.
Q 18: In the event of a seizure, what do I do?
A: you put a child on the side to keep the tongue from the mainstream of psychology, and avoid choking in case of vomiting, and not to introduce any object in his mouth Valenobp will take time and stop, and if the heart is the first seizure occurring for the child, or lasted more than 5 minutes you should take the child to The nearest doctor for examination.
Q 19: When should I take the child with epilepsy, a heart to the emergency?
A: If this initial bout of cramp, or had a duration longer than usual for the patient, or were associated with high temperature, vomiting repeatedly, and the child does not return to normal after the cessation of the Nuba.
Q 20: Does the child with epilepsy that enters the hospital with an epileptic fit?
A: No need, because most of these attacks is very short (less than 10 minutes) in most cases, and then return the child to its natural state.
Q 21: Do I need to be accompanied by a parent a child with epilepsy in his sleep in hospital?
A: Yes, must be accompanied by a parent their child during staying in hospital (especially the mother) because during that period can be for a mother to tell the medical staff of heart which affects the child, They can compare what you notice at home, can also be education of the mother's or father's disposition during an epileptic seizure, and how to prepare and give the medicine through the anus when necessary.
