Infantile spasms are a type of central nervous system seizure disorder that occurs in infants and young children under the age of three. When this disease occurs, because the baby is too young, it is easy to be mistaken for a common reaction caused by hunger or physical discomfort, but the impact is very significant. So, how to diagnose infantile spasms?
1. Typical actions
Infantile spasms are different from epilepsy and generalized spasms. The typical movement feature of infants is nodding, accompanied by bending, and even head injuries. It will also be accompanied by different types of inexplicable crying, irritability, and other phenomena. This requires timely examination of the status of various organs related to infantile spasms at the hospital.
2. Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Most infantile spasms are accompanied by abnormal results in the electroencephalogram, especially the appearance of numerical values between spasms. These test results can help doctors make a clearer diagnosis of infantile spasms, as the occurrence of infantile spasms can cause disturbances in some rhythms in the baby's brain, resulting in reduced brain damage and other phenomena.
Infantile spasms are a type of disease that has many adverse effects on the central nervous system of the brain, many of which are caused by congenital brain hypoplasia. So, some routine examinations for newborns can effectively prevent and timely treat infantile spasms.
