What are the symptoms of epilepsy
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Epilepsy, commonly known as epilepsy, is a common mental disease. The clinical manifestations were characterized by recurrent transient loss of consciousness, limb spasm and convulsion. Epilepsy can be divided into primary and secondary according to the etiology.
What are the symptoms of epilepsy
Symptom 1: 1. Mental aura. It includes illusion, hallucination, seeing or feeling things and scenes that actually don't exist. 2. Emotional aura. Including anxiety, anxiety, depression, panic, fear is the most common one. 3. Visual aura. Including seeing moving or stationary light spots, aperture, Mars, black spots, a mass of monochromatic or colored things, etc. 4. Olfactory aura. Including the smell of burnt rubber, fishy smell, sulfuric acid and other pungent odor. 5. Somatosensory aura. Including tingling, numbness, loss of sensation, etc.
Symptom 2: ankylosing attack, characterized by body stiffness, may suddenly fall, limbs without rhythmic shaking, can also have hands up, head back, or head to one side, with complexion or lips cyanosis. Clonic seizures are characterized by rhythmic shaking of limbs, head and face, rather than long-term body stiffness. Dystonic episodes are characterized by sudden muscle relaxation, inability to maintain the standing or sitting posture at that time, falling on the ground and unconsciousness. Sometimes, it is only manifested as head lowering, shoulders drooping, fingers opening, and not necessarily falling. Absence attack is characterized by sudden immobility, but no fall, straight eyes, daze, staring in front. Sometimes the eyelids beat fast or the hands trembled slightly. Generally 10 seconds to return to normal, unconscious. Absence attacks may occur several to dozens of times a day, up to 100 times a day. Absence seizures are not as noticeable as other types of seizures and are easy to be ignored. Parents often reflect that their children's academic performance, especially in mathematics, is declining. Or in a daze during class or dinner, when playing games, peers suddenly stop inexplicably and return to normal automatically after a few seconds.
Symptom 3: a major seizure, also known as generalized tonic clonic seizure, occurs when the patient loses consciousness. Sometimes he will scream first, then his whole body becomes stiff, and then his limbs shake rhythmically. Sometimes they stop breathing and turn blue. May bite the tongue, incontinence. A major attack usually lasts 1-3 minutes. After regaining consciousness, the patient may have severe headache or fall asleep. Children often return to normal quickly.
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matters needing attention
Note 1 congenital factors: this understanding is similar to the western medicine that primary epilepsy. It is called "fetal epilepsy" in traditional medical books, which means "fetal epilepsy". For example, brain hypoplasia, viscera function congenital deficiency, and so on, of course, including genetic factors. 2. Mental factors: it is a very important pathogenic factor. Mental stress, sudden fright, long-term depression, excessive excitement, anger, sadness, etc. cause mental stimulation and trauma to people, and form the internal environment of the disease. According to the Yellow Emperor's Canon of internal medicine, anger can easily hurt the liver, excessive joy can easily hurt the heart, too much thinking can hurt the spleen, too much sorrow can hurt the lung, and too much fear can easily hurt the kidney. Excessive mental stimulation can cause the disorder of Qi in the body, leading to the imbalance of Zang Qi, especially sudden panic, which is the direct cause of the disease. Labor factor: the degree of labor loss is also one of the pathogenic factors. Excessive use of the brain will inevitably lead to brain loss, mental loss, too much intensity of physical labor often makes people unable to support. In these cases, the disease pathogen is easy to invade, because at this time the human body's resistance to disease is minimized. Labor in traditional Chinese medicine books also refers to the lack of sexual intercourse. 4 fall servant birth injury: refers to the injury caused by the accident and the injury of the child at birth. These injuries are very easy to form a variety of internal and external injuries, especially brain damage, if encounter appropriate conditions, it will lead to epilepsy.
