What are the symptoms of epilepsy?

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A few days ago, when my brother was playing, he fell to the ground and began to twitch. He foamed at the mouth. His appearance was frightening. He went to the hospital for examination and said that it was epilepsy. What are the symptoms of epilepsy? Let me introduce it to you.

What are the symptoms of epilepsy?

Symptoms 1, suffering from epilepsy, which is often said in clinic. At the early stage of the disease, patients with epilepsy will not have too obvious symptoms in the early stage of the disease, but they have some emotional characteristics, such as often irritable, irritable, melancholy, picky and complaining attitude towards people and things around them. These manifestations are not typical, so they are not easy to be detected by patients.

Symptom two, epilepsy patients, often appear small seizures, also known as absence seizures. When epileptic seizures, the brain of patients will temporarily lose consciousness, some patients have disturbance of consciousness, know their environment, but can not carry out normal dialogue. Seizures generally last about 10 seconds, the longest does not exceed 1 minute, can be repeated daily seizures. During the attack, the patient will suddenly be unable to speak and move, his eyes will be stiff or turn up, and his face will become pale. After the attack, the patient can return to the normal state of activity, basically the same as before the attack.

Symptoms three, epilepsy patients will have a major attack, a few seconds before the attack, the patient's consciousness will be disordered, hallucinations, illusions, and then the patient will lose consciousness, suddenly fall to the ground, head backward, limbs become stiff, unable to bend, limbs and body will have regular twitch. At this time, if the patient is not given proper care, he may bite his tongue. There are patients with mouth foaming, and even incontinence.

matters needing attention

Patients with epilepsy to avoid spicy food and sweet food, spicy food can induce epilepsy, so drinking, smoking, coffee, tea should be absolutely prohibited. Although sweet food is not stimulating food, eating too much is easy to induce epilepsy; epileptic patients eat less salt and drink less water, and they are prone to epilepsy when they accumulate too much water in the body; they eat less food with high zinc content.