What are the characteristics of epilepsy

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Epilepsy is a kind of terrible disease. The harm caused by epilepsy to patients is also serious. My big cousin suffers from epilepsy, which is particularly frightening when she attacks. Now I will tell you about the symptoms of epilepsy.

What are the characteristics of epilepsy

Symptom characteristic 1: when epileptic seizure, it will be manifested as sudden interruption of speech and activity, staring at both eyes, occasionally turning up, sometimes pale, without aura, most of them completely lose consciousness, occasionally with shallow disturbance of consciousness, knowing something about their surroundings, hearing questions, but unable to answer back, landing with objects in their hands, sometimes breaking their rice bowls, and continuing their original activities after the seizure stops.

Symptom feature 2: epileptic patients often have illusion, hallucination and automatism in the background of consciousness disorder. It is also called temporal lobe epilepsy because it is mostly caused by temporal lobe lesions. About 40% of the patients have aura of stomach discomfort, auditory hallucination, hallucination, vertigo, nausea, fear, etc.

Symptom characteristic 3: epileptic patients with localized seizures, also known as simple seizures, performance for a part of the body rhythmic twitch, lasting several seconds, clear consciousness, if there is epileptic discharge expansion, can be extended to half the body or the whole body.

matters needing attention

For patients with epilepsy, we should timely relieve the pressure from all aspects of life, patients with epilepsy should try to use less excitatory drinks, so caffeine in such drinks can make brain cells excited, abnormal discharge make seizures, should avoid alcohol can make nervous system highly excited, and reduce the threshold of epileptic focus, easy to induce seizures.