What symptom is senile epileptic seizure

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Epilepsy is also known as epilepsy in medicine. Generally, people over 60 years old belong to senile epilepsy. The symptoms of senile epilepsy may be a little different from those of ordinary people. Every time my grandfather has an epileptic seizure, his muscles are forced to contract. Let me introduce the symptoms of senile epilepsy.

What symptom is senile epileptic seizure

First: epilepsy in the elderly is mostly secondary, and its etiology, diagnosis and treatment are different from those in other age groups. It has its own characteristics. Most of the clinical seizures of epilepsy in the elderly are partial seizures, of which simple partial seizures are the main form, and a few are complex partial seizures.

Second: elderly patients with epilepsy will not be in a daze, its symptoms are mainly manifested as tonic clonic seizures, tonic elderly patients with epilepsy are mainly manifested as loss of consciousness, a sudden fall to the ground, muscle contraction, head backward, eyes up, mouth constantly open and close, laryngeal muscle spasm, if no one care, it is very easy to cause senile epilepsy Many people have been hurt.

Third: in the clonic phase, elderly patients will show general spasm, muscle contraction, this process will last about 1-3 minutes. Second, the hazy state will last for a day or even a week after the seizure, so it needs someone to take care of the elderly all the time.

matters needing attention

Elderly people's body is not more vulnerable than ordinary people because of seizures, so we need to pay more attention to the physical condition of the elderly, but also take the elderly to the hospital in time, so as to improve the elderly epilepsy.