Paroxysmal disorders in children, born by young mothers

Abstract

Mothers’ young age is the first of the factors, leading to the development of pathology in the period of pregnancy, morbidity and mortality of newborns. P.Olaussoy, S.Chattiugius, B. Haghund (2001) determined, the risk of perinatal complications at the age of 13-15 years is four times higher than at the age of 20 - 24, and at the age 16 - 17 is twice higher. Purpose of the work is to study the variants of paroxysmal disorders in children, born by young mothers. We examined 150 children, born by young mothers (mothers aged 13-17 years), who were treated in the children’s municipal clinic No 8. 15 children had paroxysmal disorders (10 boys and 5 girls). 2 children had paroxysmal disorders from the first day of life, in the other 5 - disorders developed during the first six months, in the other 3- during the first year, in other 5 - during 3 years and during 10 years 2 children developed the disease. The paroxysmal disorders structure includes symptomatic focal epilepsy (33,3%), symptomatic multifocal epilepsy (6,7%), cryptogenic-focal epilepsy (20%), situational conditioned epilepsy (affective-provoked) (6,7%), symptomatic generalized epilepsy (13,3%). The neurological status at the moment of admission to the hospital of one part of children was characterized by severe moving disorders: spastic tetraparesis (46,2%), in combination with hyperkinetic syndrome (15,4%),disorders of skull-brain nerves (30,8%). Another part of children had diffuse muscle hypotony (15,4%),pyramidal insufficiency (15,4%). Thus, disorders of epileptic genesis, usually symptomatic, are part of the paroxysmal disorders in the examined children.