Epilepsy like symptoms?

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Epilepsy (epilepsy), commonly known as "epilepsy" or "epilepsy", is a chronic disease of sudden abnormal discharge of brain neurons, which leads to transient brain dysfunction.

Epilepsy like symptoms?

Generalized tonic clonic seizures: characterized by sudden loss of consciousness and generalized tonic and convulsions, the typical seizure process can be divided into tonic stage, clonic stage and late seizure stage. 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. Tonic clonic seizures can be seen in any type of epilepsy and epilepsy syndrome.

Absence attack: the typical manifestation of absence is sudden occurrence, action stop, gaze, call it should not, may have blink, but basically without or accompanied by mild motor symptoms, the end is also sudden. Usually lasts 5-20 seconds, rarely more than 1 minute. It is mainly seen in children with absence epilepsy.

Ankylosis attack: it is characterized by the intense and continuous contraction of the whole body or bilateral muscles, muscle rigidity, so that the limbs and body are fixed in a certain tense posture, such as axial body extension, back flexion or forward flexion. It usually lasts from several seconds to tens of seconds, but generally not more than one minute. Tonic seizures are more common in epilepsy patients with diffuse organic brain damage, which is generally a sign of serious illness, mainly in children, such as Lennox Gastaut syndrome.

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Myoclonic seizure: it is a sudden rapid and short contraction of the muscle, which is similar to the electric shock like shaking of the body or limbs, sometimes several times in a row, and often occurs after awakening. It can be a whole body action or a local action. Myoclonus is common in clinic, but not all myoclonus are epileptic seizures.