What are the early symptoms of epilepsy

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For people with diseases, in order to avoid the aggravation of epilepsy, we should find the symptoms of epilepsy in time at the early stage of onset and treat them. Only when we know the symptoms can we do a good job in prevention. What are the early symptoms of epilepsy.

What are the early symptoms of epilepsy

First: the initial symptoms of epilepsy often criticize or complain about others, will show irritability, restlessness, emotional depression, bad mood, the illusions, hallucinations, automatism, local myoclonus or other special feelings of patients with epilepsy within a few seconds before the seizure. Some psychomotor seizures can also appear similar to the prodromal symptoms of a major attack. In terms of the early symptoms of epilepsy, we must treat them in time, otherwise, the early symptoms of epilepsy will be very serious, and may also lead to the seizure of status epilepticus.

Second: the initial symptoms of epilepsy play an important role in clinical diagnosis. Studies have proved that epilepsy is a sudden abnormal discharge of brain neurons, leading to transient brain dysfunction. The initial symptoms of epilepsy can help to locate the focus of epilepsy. The initial stage of seizure reflects the activated discharge of a functional area of cerebral cortex, which is the initial symptom of epileptic patients. Therefore, the first initial symptom often represents the brain area with abnormal discharge, that is, the lesion location.

Third: temporal lobe epilepsy has aura of hearing, emotion and epigastric discomfort. Most parietal lobe epilepsy has somatosensory aura. Occipital lobe epilepsy has visual aura. Frontal lobe epilepsy usually has no aura. The initial symptoms of patients with epilepsy, but sometimes can quickly spread to adjacent areas. If it spreads to the central posterior gyrus, it can cause somatosensory symptoms. If it spreads to the occipital lobe, it can cause hallucination.

matters needing attention

1. Mental trauma: epilepsy patients are often discriminated against by the society, and encounter difficulties in employment, marriage, family life and other aspects, resulting in mental depression and great impact on their physical and mental health. 2. Accidental casualties: epileptic patients often have sudden attacks at any time, place, environment and can't control themselves, and are prone to fall, scald, drowning, traffic accidents, etc. 3. Damage of brain function: every seizure of epilepsy, brain cell damage once, long-term recurrent seizures, patients will decline in intelligence, and finally gradually lose the ability to work and even the ability to live. Frequent epileptic seizures can cause damage to the brain. Generally, the earlier epilepsy occurs, the greater the impact. It can cause memory impairment, mental decline, personality change, even pessimism and suicide. Small attacks, psychomotor attacks and localized attacks also cause harm to the human body.