What are the symptoms of epilepsy

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As a past person, I must be a patient with epilepsy, in order to better treatment, to deal with various types of seizures of this disease, so as to achieve the best treatment effect. Let's take a look at the symptoms of epilepsy.

What are the symptoms of epilepsy

Symptom 1: absence attack: typical absence performance is sudden occurrence, action stop, gaze, call it should not, can have blink, but basically without or accompanied by mild motor symptoms, the end is also sudden. Usually lasts 5-20 seconds, rarely more than 1 minute.

Symptom 2: generalized tonic clonic seizures: characterized by sudden loss of consciousness and generalized tonic and convulsions, the typical seizure process can be divided into tonic stage, clonic stage and late seizure stage. The duration of an attack is generally less than 5 minutes, often accompanied by tongue bite, urinary incontinence, and easy to cause asphyxia and other injuries, the harm of this attack is the biggest, when it occurs, we must take timely measures to protect.

Symptom 3: ankylosis attack: it is characterized by strong and continuous contraction of the whole body or bilateral muscles, muscle rigidity, so that the limbs and body are fixed in a certain tense posture, such as axial body extension, back flexion or forward flexion. It usually lasts from several seconds to tens of seconds, but generally not more than one minute. Tonic seizures are more common in patients with diffuse organic brain damage in epilepsy, which means that the patient's condition is more serious.

matters needing attention

The majority of epilepsy better, of course, there are a small number of epilepsy is difficult to control, the prognosis is not ideal, epilepsy patients should be optimistic, adhere to treatment, do a good job in peacetime prevention work, strive to get rid of epilepsy as soon as possible.