What is neonatal convulsion

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People with small babies have known that convulsion is a phenomenon similar to the symptoms of gout. It is a common disease in newborns, and it is more common in premature infants. Now let's talk about what is neonatal convulsion.

What is neonatal convulsion

First, seizures during wakefulness are characterized by sudden decrease or stagnation of movement, decreased response or immobility of gaze. Convulsive symptoms include binocular syntropia, head or body turning to one side, and slight clonic movement may involve the eye muscles, face and limbs. Muscle tension may be slightly increased.

Second: crying during sleep is often the initial manifestation, followed by mild convulsions. Half of the patients had simple automatism, such as smacking, chewing, salivating, swallowing and so on, or aimless movement of the limbs (somatic automatism), but lack of complex and subtle automatism.

Third: convulsion is the abnormal discharge of brain cells caused by the temporary disorder of cerebral cortex function. It is characterized by sudden occurrence of involuntary muscle rigidity and clonic twitch in the whole or local skeletal muscle group, and joint movement, which is mostly systemic and symmetrical.

matters needing attention

In the process of neonatal convulsion, we must not move the newborn at will, and guard by the bed to avoid the child rolling off the bed. At the same time, it is necessary to prevent the newborn from biting his tongue during convulsion. And parents also need to expand their knowledge, so that the baby can grow up healthily.