This illness is known as a severe congenital epilepsy. It is considered a rare sickness that affects 1 over 16,000 childbirths. The syndrome is caused due to a genetic mutation affecting the nervous and neuron system. The age of onset of this disease is between 4 and 6 months of life, characterized by chronic seizures of prolonged duration. Sadly, it is not something that gets better when they get older. There can be other symptoms such as developmental delay and abnormal EGs, but they do not appear until the second or third year of life.
There has been a lot of research to treat and cure it, since it affects their quality of life, however most of them have been unsuccessful. Current treatment options are very limited and the constant care that a patient with this syndrome requires severely affects the quality of life of both patient and family. Nevertheless, it is commonly treated with epileptic pharmaceuticals which helps the children have a more normalized life, but it is not a permanent cure for the disease.