Nodding contrived diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines

Abstract

Nodding epilepsy or infantile spasms, broadly speaking, it is a subtype of epilepsy. Mainly occurs in infants, occasionally also in small children. General antiepileptic drugs are difficult to be effective, but ACTH, adrenal cortex hormone and benzodiazepine (Benzodiazepam) drugs have considerable curative effect. The author of this paper puts forward the following prescriptions for the diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines of nodding epilepsy. 1. Key points for the diagnosis of nodding epilepsy 1. Age of onset: Most of them are under 1 year old, and those over 2 years old are extremely rare. 2. Attack characteristics: (1) each attack is short-lived (from a moment to