Clinical report : The 90 children who visited Department of Pediatrics, hospital of Oriental Medicine with convulsion as a Chief Complaint

한방소아과에 경련을 주증으로 내원한 환아 90례의 임상적(臨床的) 보고(報告)

Objective : The purpose of this study is to investigate the current trends of children patients with convulsion. Children convulsion patients who visited the Pediatric Department of the Oriental Medicine hospital were investigated and analyzed. Method : 90 children complaining convulsion who visited the Department of Pediatrics of Kyung Hee University Oriental Medicine Hospital, between March, 2005 and October 2005 were statistically analyzed. Results : The percentage of boys outnumbered the girls. The percentage of children under the age of 5 18 66.7%. The percentage of children with family history is 43%. The majority of children had visited the hospital twice (n=21). As for intercurrent diseases, there were URI, C.P., ADHD, CHD, sequela of encephalitis and etc. As for the result of EEG examinations, 25 children were normal and 18 were abnormal. As for the appearance of seizures, Tonic-Clonic seizure was the most common seizure among the children (n=13). As for the type of convulsion, simple febrile convulsion was the most common (n=35). As for the curative effect. the percentage of children who showed improvement to treatment was 41.2%. Jangdambosintang, sunbangpaedoktang, gamichodeungeunm, gamichungeumchowitang and etc were the most frequently prescribed medicines.