As the saying goes: "Smile and you will be young in ten years."
But recently, Ms. Wang has been very worried.
"The children often laugh for no reason."
Ms. Wang, who feels that something is getting more and more wrong
, took her children to Zhengzhou City No. 2 People's Hospital visited the hospital
After examination, the child's condition was
...
The baby was laughing inexplicably, and the parents were heartbroken
Ms. Wang accidentally discovered that the baby over 1 year old was laughing while watching cartoons, and she was still disdainful. With a sneer, the family members were all surprised. This child has the desire to express emotions so early?
From then on, Ms. Wang began to pay attention to the baby's expression, but found that the baby laughed more and more frequently without any inducement.
Sometimes he laughed innocently
Sometimes he looked like a "pleasant" "Hey", and there were strange sounds in the throat
No interaction with others. , sometimes accompanied by involuntary movements such as blinking and smacking the lips.
During the attack, the consciousness is sometimes blurred, sometimes clear, and cannot be controlled
Sighing or saying "hey". The symptoms are relieved.
The attack occurs 3-5 times a day. Sex, she began to seek medical treatment everywhere, but no abnormalities were found in genetic tests, and the cause was not found after many twists and turns. Ms. Wang thought it was " Tourette Syndrome " and began to provide psychological counseling and other treatments to the baby.
However, not long ago, the baby started laughing again for no reason while playing with balloons. The laughter was uncontrollable and gradually grew louder. Then he lost consciousness, his face and limbs twitched, and his eyes stared upwards. It took about 1 minute to alleviate.
After many inquiries, Ms. Wang found Wang Xiahong, director of the third ward of the Department of Neurology. After examination, the child's condition was a special type of epilepsy, namely laughter epilepsy.
After 2 months of anti-epileptic drug treatment, the child's symptoms were completely relieved during follow-up.
1. What is and ?
01. What is laughing epilepsy?
Laughing epilepsy is a type of epilepsy. It is more common in young children and is common in children under 15 years old. However, it is different from ordinary epilepsy. It has obvious symptoms such as convulsions and teeth grinding, so it is easy to Misdiagnosis.
The patient's face is expressionless or has a strange expression when he laughs. There is no normal and pleasant expression of emotion. The laughter is high and rough, and the tone is abnormal. It seems to be a smile but not a smile.
started suddenly and ended very suddenly. The laughter is inconsistent with the scene, that is to say, there is no element of laughter in most cases. The patient is unconscious of the attack and does not have any pleasant emotional experiences. This type of epilepsy was often mistaken for hysterical attacks.
Although laughing epilepsy is a child who often laughs for no reason, it is relatively rare. However, if it is not treated and controlled in time and the disease progresses, other epilepsy symptoms will appear, seriously affecting life.
So how do we judge whether a child's laughter is happy
or a symptom of disease?
02. Clinical manifestations
I wonder if you have seen the movie "Joker". The protagonist Arthur works hard and dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian, but unfortunately, he has a strange disease, that is, he sometimes laughs for no reason, and is regarded as weird by others. fetal.
Although the film is fictional, the symptoms of laughing epilepsy in reality are similar to them.
① Laughing suddenly without any reason for laughter, and suddenly stops. The laughter is not contagious and cannot be controlled by oneself;
② There is no sense of fun and memory after the attack;
③ When the child grows older, the symptoms of epilepsy will intensify and other symptoms will appear. Symptoms of epilepsy, such as twitching of limbs, rolling eyes, etc., will increase in duration, sometimes lasting about 20 minutes.
2. How to prevent
01. Do not use drugs at will during pregnancy
Some media have reported such a thing before. The 5-month-old Xiaoyu had the same situation as Ms. Wang’s baby. After a magnetic resonance head examination, the doctor found that the child suffered from giggling epilepsy due to abnormal discharge caused by ectopic in the gray matter of brain. She suffered from hypothalamic hamartoma and giggling epilepsy. After understanding it, the cause of the disease may be related to the drugs the mother took when she was pregnant. Therefore, mothers should not take medicine casually during pregnancy.
02. Seek medical attention as soon as possible
Laughing epilepsy is easily ignored by parents, and the best treatment period is often missed. When discovered, it is often many years later, and the child has obvious twitching of limbs and even foaming at the mouth.
Director Wang Xiahong suggested that if a child often laughs or cries inexplicably, the child must be taken to the hospital for a checkup in time, otherwise it will really bring hidden dangers to the child's health.
Chief Physician Wang Xiahong
Director of the Third Ward of the Department of Neurology and Director of the Epilepsy and Neuroelectrophysiology Research Office of Zhengzhou Second People’s Hospital. He has profound knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of refractory epilepsy and neuroelectrophysiology; he has deep knowledge in cerebrovascular disease, encephalitis, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord. Diseases, peripheral neuropathy , neuromuscular disease, headache, dizziness, anxiety and depression, and has rich clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases of the nervous system.
has published 30 national academic papers and 2 SCI papers, participated in the writing of two monographs, and won 5 provincial or departmental science and technology progress awards.
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