Are your children still playing games? Hurry to ban it! Experts said that the continuous change of color pictures when playing games is like rapid flash stimulation, especially the intense duel scenes will cause some visual related seizure frequency, while playing games regularly will cause excessive fatigue of the brain and vision, which will increase seizures.

In the summer vacation, parents were busy working. They were afraid that the child with epilepsy would attack when he went out alone. They chose to let the child play games at home, but this just accelerated the seizure. This is because the cerebral nerve spasm reaction may occur under the flash induction, and epilepsy may occur during or after the flash. Its attack is mainly caused by visual stimulation such as strong light source stimulation, flash stimulation and so on.

　　 Is the number of children suffering from epilepsy increasing again?

"Official data show that more than half of the 400000 newly added patients every year are children, but this is purely statistical." Wang Yuping, director of the Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, explained that on the one hand, parents will pay more attention to their children's health than before, and many parents who have consulted said what symptoms their children had a few days ago, "If it had been before, parents would have said what happened to the child a few months ago, or half a year ago." This would enable the real child to be diagnosed as soon as possible.

On the other hand, the development of transportation and communication has provided convenience for parents. Once a child is found to be a bit strange, all parties will ask. At such free clinics, many parents from other places will take their own videos of their children to make a diagnosis, which was not the case in the past. "The current data can be said to be 'ahead of time' statistics, and I believe that the total number will slowly decline," said Wang Yuping.

　　 How can epilepsy be treated?

As long as you spend some energy on your child's diet every day, your child's seizures may be reduced. Ketogen diet is the third treatment for epilepsy after drugs and surgery.

Ketogenic diet is a kind of diet with high fat, low carbohydrate and protein, and strictly limits carbohydrate and liquid intake.

It can treat epilepsy without affecting normal growth and development. This therapy is mainly used to treat intractable epilepsy in children aged 1-10 years. Its effectiveness and safety have been recognized.

Wang Yuping said that the ketogenic diet is effective for 50% - 80% of children with intractable epilepsy. The ketogenic diet does not mean that children can only eat such things. Snacks can be eaten in moderation, which will not affect children's daily life.

There are three kinds of poisons in medicine, and epilepsy needs to take medicine all the time. How many poisons must be accumulated in the child's body, will it affect the child's intelligence?

Wang Yuping said that compared with epileptic seizures, drugs have relatively little impact on brain function. "Traditional antiepileptic drugs do have a greater impact on children's cognition, but some new antiepileptic drugs developed now have a smaller impact." Wang Yuping introduced that new antiepileptic drugs, such as lamotrigine and oxcarbazepine, have even improved cognition.

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　　 What parents should do with epilepsy

1. Hold it immediately and let it fall down slowly to avoid falling.

2. Before the patient's mouth is tightly closed, quickly roll the handkerchief, gauze, etc. into a roll and pad them between the patient's upper and lower teeth to prevent the bite of the tongue when the teeth are tightly closed.

3. If you have fallen down and landed on your face, you should turn it over to avoid airway obstruction.

4. If the patient's jaw is closed, do not pry it open by force, otherwise the patient's teeth will become loose and fall off.

5. Loosen the patient's collar and trouser belt to make them breathe freely.

6. In case of serious illness, send to the doctor in time. (Intern reporter Zhao Xueyan)