What are the symptoms of epilepsy

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Epilepsy is epilepsy, the symptoms are divided into four categories, respectively, epilepsy major seizures, minor seizures, psychomotor seizures and limited seizures, different types of epilepsy symptoms are different. Many people in the folk are very aware of this disease, so what are the symptoms of epilepsy.

What are the symptoms of epilepsy

Symptom one: a major attack. It accounts for about 50% of epileptic seizures, most of them are about 1 year old or between 14-17 years old. Major seizures can be divided into four stages: (1) premonitory stage; (2) tonic stage; (3) clonic stage; (4) convalescent stage.

Symptom 2: epileptic seizure, also known as absence seizure, is typically characterized by transient loss of consciousness, complete loss of consciousness in most patients, and occasionally shallow disturbance of consciousness, knowing something about the surroundings, being able to hear questions, but unable to answer them. Disturbance of consciousness is short and frequent.

Symptom 3: most of them attack for 2-15 seconds, no more than 1 minute, several times to dozens of times a day. Sudden occurrence or termination. Performance for speech and activity suddenly interrupted, two eyes gaze, occasionally turned up, sometimes pale, without warning. The object in hand falls to the ground, sometimes breaks the rice bowl, after the attack stops, continues the original activity.

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Psychomotor attack. In the background of disturbance of consciousness, there are often illusions, hallucinations and automatism. It is also called temporal lobe epilepsy because it is caused by temporal lobe lesions. About 40% of the patients had aura of stomach discomfort, auditory hallucination, smell hallucination, dizziness, nausea, fear, etc.