What is infantile convulsion

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Infantile convulsion is a serious disease. Once it occurs, it will not only affect the development of children's intelligence, but also may endanger their lives. Let's see what is infantile convulsion.

What is infantile convulsion

First of all: convulsion is a common emergency in children, especially in infants. Due to a variety of reasons caused by brain nerve dysfunction. It is characterized by sudden tonic and clonic convulsions of the whole body or local muscles, often accompanied by disturbance of consciousness. The incidence rate of convulsion in children is very high, and 5% to 6% of children have had one or more convulsions.

Secondly, frequent seizures or persistent state of convulsion may cause serious sequelae and affect children's intellectual development and health. In the discovery of children with this disease, it is best to be able to timely treatment.

Finally: it is sometimes difficult to determine whether a newborn, especially a premature infant, has convulsions. Convulsion should be considered when any strange inertia phenomenon or slight twitch occurs repeatedly and periodically, especially when accompanied by eye upturning or abnormal activity and convulsion. Convulsion should be distinguished from the following phenomena.

matters needing attention

The diet should be light, nutritious and easy to digest; do not feed food in case of convulsion; the comatose children should be given nasal feeding according to the doctor's advice. When convulsion attacks, parents had better not feed their children, which may cause asphyxia and lead to more serious effects.