Sometimes parents don’t get any hint whatsoever about their child’s health condition – especially when they have epilepsy. In case of absence seizures – when children get them for the first time – parents find it very difficult to ...
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Neurodevelopmental follow-up care of high-risk newborns: High-risk infants and newborns are susceptible to neurodevelopmental delay. The objective of neurodevelopmental follow-up care of high-risk newborns is to detect the delay early and identify the associated perinatal factors. This will help in ...
Read MoreAtaxia telangiectasia is also known as Louis-Bar syndrome. It is a very rare childhood genetic disorder that occurs in about 1 in 50,000 to 100000 children worldwide. The term ataxia refers to uncontrolled and uncoordinated movement – walking. It is ...
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There are certain things that are not under your control – seizures are one among those. They occur suddenly or randomly without any obvious cause. Sometimes, certain things can increase the number of seizures’ episodes and also trigger seizures ...
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seizure mimics or imitators of epilepsy are those conditions that are not caused actually by the disturbances in the electrical activity of the brain. These conditions can cause loss of awareness, sensations, abnormal body movements. In reality, these symptoms ...
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Fats in the diet breakdown and form ketones in the body when the body uses fats as a source of energy – therefore, the name of the diet is ketogenic diet. A dietician supervises the diet and monitors the child’s ...
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Drug-resistant epilepsy: Sometimes epilepsy may not come under control or fails to respond to anti-epileptic drugs in nearly about 30 to 35% of adults and 20 to 25% of children. Several studies indicate this fact. Medically resistant epilepsy in children ...
Read MoreDr Habib Pathan explains the role of epilepsy doctors in Hyderabad who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in general. for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in children, paediatric neurologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment ...
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Neurological Examination A paediatric neurologist performs an array of simple tests to assess a child’s reflexes, balance and coordination, motor and sensory skills and mental health status. A typical neurological examination has different areas to focus on – therefore, the ...
Read MoreHypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) which is also known as Perinatal asphyxia is a condition that is associated with brain injury (acute or subacute) due to asphyxia (A condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged). HIE ...
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