What are the symptoms of epilepsy

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My friend's child is 5 years old this year. Recently, there has been an abnormal situation. After checking the information on the Internet, my friend suspected that he had epilepsy. He didn't appear before, so he didn't dare to jump to a conclusion. Let's take a look at the symptoms of epilepsy.

What are the symptoms of epilepsy

First, epilepsy is characterized by sudden loss of consciousness and generalized tonic and convulsion. The typical seizure process can be divided into tonic phase, clonic phase and late seizure phase. The duration of an attack is generally less than 5 minutes, often accompanied by tongue bite, urinary incontinence, and easy to cause asphyxia and other injuries.

Second, absence attack: typical absence performance for sudden, action stop, gaze, call it should not, may have blink, but basically without or accompanied by mild motor symptoms, end also suddenly. It usually lasts 5-20 seconds, usually no more than 1 minute. Epilepsy is a disease state caused by abnormal discharge of brain neurons.

Third, frequent blinking, transient amnesia, convulsions, rolling eyes, mouth foaming, purplish lips, syncope, limb rigidity, etc. Psychosensory, psychomotor and mixed seizures. Most of them have different degrees of consciousness disorder and obvious thinking, perception, emotion and psychomotor disorder. There may be automatic symptoms such as wandering at night and so on. Sometimes, under the control of hallucination and delusion, violence such as hurting others and self injuring can occur.

matters needing attention

We must pay attention to this situation in time. If we find that our children have problems, remember to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible, and carry out symptomatic treatment according to the condition. We must not delay it, otherwise it may become more serious, and the gain is not worth the loss.