Seizures are clinical manifestations of abnormal, excessive and simultaneous discharges of neurons in the cerebral cortex. Epilepsy is two or more unprovokable seizures. Every year between 25,000 and 40,000 children in the United States experience the first unprovoked seizure. The need for preventive treatment. Talking about **seizure disorders in children. the floor Seizures are classified into two types: relative and general...

The first seizure in children As the command center in the human body, the brain controls many actions in addition to stimulating various glands. The brain is responsible for controlling the following actions: - Perform complex calculations - Thinking and speech - Memory and learning - Emotions and feelings All these works are controlled by different electrical waves that flow in certain parts of the brain... Now, if this electrical current loses its order for a specific reason, such as a shock or fever, it may involve the whole brain at once, which is called a seizure process... Because children's brains have not grown enough and it takes time to reach the main growth, the rate of seizures in children is approximately more than 6% in adults... Seizures... in children are caused by external factors that affect the brain... Factors such as Blood glucose, lack of calcium, fever and... can have negative effects on the brain... It continues around the age of 6... Risk factors for seizure disorders in children 1...most seizures have an idiopathic/cryptogenic cause...other causes include: vascular causes, trauma, developmental (diseases associated with mental retardation and/or cerebral palsy), infection, neoplasm, and degenerative causes...localized seizures occur due to brain pathology such as cerebral hiccups, tumor lesions, developmental disorders, or genetic syndromes...children may Start **recurrent seizures** but they are not considered epilepsy... 4... Seizures originate from any part of the brain, but are usually limited in the gray matter of the neocortex in the limbic system, especially the hippocampus and amygdala.. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures: intermittent muscle stiffness and tremors, biting of the tongue, incontinence, decreased level of consciousness and short-term post-seizure convulsions... Tonic-clonic movements of the face, neck and limbs: head turns and eyes turn to one side... 3... complex partial seizures: decreased consciousness, children may blink or stare... to find objects... 4... Absence of seizures: brief decrease in level Consciousness but without loss of muscle tone.. 5 .... Myoclonic seizures: brief but symmetrical jumps of the body accompanied by a decrease in body tone and falling forward... Prevention of seizures in children. is... Convulsion following a fever.... This type of seizure occurs in a child who is in good general condition and whose body temperature rises above 38 degrees within 24 hours... - Before using the thermometer, be sure to shake it and make sure that the thermometer indicator is before the lowest number, then place the thermometer under the child's armpit, which should be held under the child's armpit for about 5 minutes. be quickly checked for meningitis....

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Seizure diagnosis in children Regarding convulsions following fever in children, there are several important issues that need attention.. From the clinical point of view, the only symptoms children have during convulsions is fever.. Most of the time, the general condition of the child is not that bad, and by visiting the pediatrician, the convulsions are over, and only the necessary measures should be taken to prevent convulsions in the child. If the child is not done correctly and the child has frequent seizures, it is classified as a disorder caused by complex fever... 1.... During a seizure, the patient should be placed in a safe place to avoid harming the child. 5... Neonatal spasms: vigabatrin, valproic acid, benzodiazepines, ACTH 6... Epilepsy surgery may also help in refractory cases... ### Prognosis on seizure disorders in children Prognosis depends on the cause of seizures.. Some seizures have bad effects on the child's growth and development.. Status epilepticus that lasts more than 30 minutes is considered a fatal emergency and it is necessary for parents to pay attention to it.. Less than half of the initial seizures are repeated. The pediatrician advises the parents to go to the doctor as soon as possible when the symptoms of fever and convulsions for no reason start in children so that treatment measures can be considered for them...