What is symptomatic epilepsy?

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Symptomatic eclampsia, also known as secondary epilepsy, acquired epilepsy or cryptogenic epilepsy, refers to epilepsy with definite etiology. After embryogenesis, epilepsy focus is formed due to structural changes or metabolic abnormalities of brain due to various reasons. What is symptomatic epilepsy? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is symptomatic epilepsy?

Seizure of epilepsy: patients will suddenly appear the loss of consciousness, and then a systemic spasm. The patients often accompanied with screaming, cyanosis, urinary incontinence, tongue bite, mouth foaming or blood foam, mydriasis. After lasting for tens of seconds or a few minutes, the spasm naturally stops and goes into a state of lethargy. If the attack continues, has been in a coma, said the state of persistent major attack, often life-threatening

Simple partial seizure: a partial or unilateral limb tonic, clonic seizure, or paresthesia seizure, lasting for a short time, clear consciousness. If the range of seizure extends along the motor area to other limbs or the whole body, it may be accompanied by loss of consciousness, which is also one of the symptoms of epilepsy

Complex partial seizures: psychosensory, psychomotor and mixed seizures. Most of them have different degrees of consciousness disorder and obvious thinking, perception, emotion and psychomotor disorder. There may be automatic symptoms such as wandering at night and so on. Sometimes, under the control of hallucination and delusion, violence such as self injury can occur.

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Summer should pay attention to exercise, but as epilepsy patients should pay attention to the safety of going out, do not engage in some high-risk work or sports. Such as driving, fire fighting, etc., do not do dangerous, violent sports, such as climbing, swimming and other sports. Work and study should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, avoid excessive mental fatigue, pay attention to ease the psychological pressure, effective for the prevention of epilepsy, but those dangerous activities are not necessary.