What are the characteristics of focal epilepsy?

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Epilepsy is a common, but also not easy to find a symptom, then for patients with focal epilepsy symptoms is what kind of, usually have what performance? Now let's have a look! What are the characteristics of focal epilepsy?

What are the characteristics of focal epilepsy?

Postural seizures: head eye rotation with abduction and flexion of ipsilateral upper limb, and rigidity of ipsilateral lower limb and contralateral upper limb. Language attack, the patient sends out monotonous language or repeats the words and sentences before the attack (epileptic repetitive language). There are also laughter like seizures (laughing epilepsy). Aphasia is a kind of aphasia with different degrees and types. In patients with motor inhibitory seizures, temporary limb paralysis can occur on the opposite side of the lesion.

Sensory seizures: seizures often start from the corner of the mouth, fingers or toes and other parts of the abnormal sensation. Such as numbness, needling, warmth or limb loss, and even produce the whole head or whole body abnormal feeling which is difficult to describe. Some of them are manifested as flash, and can also be visual attacks such as complex images or local visual field defects.

Motor seizures: limited to one side of the limb twitch, sometimes tonic into clonic, mostly seen in the corner of the mouth, eyelids, fingers, toes. Most of the convulsions are short, without disturbance of consciousness, occasionally lasting for hours or even days. The attack can be extended to a major attack or one limb or the whole body. Rotation attack, common eyeball to one side rigidity with deflection, at the same time head and trunk to one side, a few can cause to turn to one side.

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The above several symptoms of focal seizures should have a very detailed understanding of it! For different symptoms, we need to adopt different health care measures to deal with, in the right care can achieve good prevention and resistance effect.