What symptom is convulsion?

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Convulsions are commonly known as cramps, convulsions, convulsions, also known as convulsions. Paroxysmal twitch of limbs and facial muscles, accompanied by bilateral eyeball upturning, gaze or strabismus, delirium. Sometimes accompanied by mouth foaming or mouth corner involvement, apnea, cyanosis, attack time more than 3 to 5 minutes, sometimes repeated attacks, or even sustained state. What symptom is convulsion? Let's talk about it

What symptom is convulsion?

Before convulsion, a few can have aura. If you see any of the following clinical signs, you should be alert for seizures: extreme irritability or "convulsion" from time to time, mental tension, panic, sudden increase of muscle tension of limbs, sudden shortness of breath, pause or irregular, sudden rise of body temperature, sudden change of complexion, etc. Most convulsions are sudden.

The typical clinical manifestation of convulsion is sudden loss of consciousness, and sudden occurrence of systemic or limited, tonic or clonic facial and limb muscle convulsions, often accompanied by double eyes upturning, staring or strabismus. Local facial (especially eyelids, lips) and thumb twitch for prominent performance, binocular ball often gaze, straight or upturned, pupil dilation.

Muscle twitch in different parts can lead to different clinical manifestations: throat muscle twitch can cause mouth foaming, throat phlegm, and even suffocation; Respiratory muscle twitch can cause breath holding, cyanosis and hypoxia; Convulsions of bladder, rectum and abdomen can cause incontinence; In addition, severe convulsions can cause tongue bite, muscle and joint damage, fall injury, etc.

matters needing attention

② Antipyretic: febrile convulsion is the most common cause of infantile convulsion, so we should pay attention to the rapid cooling. ① Drug cooling: acetaminophen or ibuprofen can be taken orally. ② Physical cooling: warm water bath and ice bag are effective cooling measures. Except for infants under 3 months old, children of other ages can only be effective after drug cooling.