The kid who was playing well suddenly went blank. Is it a sign of epilepsy attack?
May 12, 2025
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Bundang Jesaeng Hospital analyzed the number of epilepsy patients by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, which was 145,918 in 2018, but about 152,094 in 2022, an increase of about 4.2% over the past five years, and 33,67 patients under the age of 10 in 2022, accounting for 20% of children and adolescents.
Epilepsy is easy to think of seizures and convulsions, but symptoms of epilepsy are very diverse, such as showing a blank state, changing your taste, and repeated actions of touching your hands, and benign epilepsy, which has a relatively good prognosis, usually appears in childhood.
Dazed epilepsy is generally a state of non-response repeatedly looking at one place blankly, which can occur in both children and adults and is especially common in children.
Byeon Sung-hwan, director of Pediatrics and Adolescents at Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, said "Children diagnosed with childhood kidney attacks do not show major seizures in the early stages, so guardians usually suspect other diseases such as ADHD. That's why diagnosis is often delayed."
Manager Byun Sung-hwan added, "Conclusion seizures are shown to repeat meaningless actions, such as sudden stops and makes a blank face, if the child does not respond or answer even if his or her name is called, water, saliva, or muzzling. If you can't remember what just happened after a seizure, you can suspect epilepsy, and you need attention from your surroundings because the child doesn't recognize it on his or her own."
Short dazed symptoms are repeated, and it occurs mainly in children aged 4 to 10, and it is simply diagnosed by electroencephalography and respiration induction, and it often disappears on its own after drug treatment for a certain period of time due to good response to the drug.
Manager Byun Sung-hwan said, `There are many cases where people mistake it for a simple decrease in concentration and visit the hospital after a major attack. Due to the short length of spasms, the number of spasms can vary from few to hundreds of times a day, and many spasms often interfere with learning. However, the prognosis is good, and if it is detected quickly at the time of development, it will disappear naturally after treatment, so not only bad diseases exist in epilepsy, but also benign epilepsy exists" he stressed
Unlike adults, epilepsy in children and adolescents has many convulsive diseases with good prognosis that occur at a certain age and disappear during the growth process, and children can heal well with relatively small amounts of drugs compared to adults, but if symptoms are severe, it may have a bad effect on development.
Spacing out repeatedly. If there is no response or abnormal behavior, it may be an early symptom of epilepsy, not a simple habit or a temporary decrease in concentration, so it is necessary to seek medical treatment at a nearby pediatric and adolescent department.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
