What are the causes and symptoms of epilepsy?

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The symptoms of epilepsy is more obvious, patients will cause serious ah, physical fatigue, may also cause nervous system diseases, some patients with epilepsy, may also be due to severe brain injury caused by this phenomenon, due to the emergence of infectious lesions in the brain, may cause epilepsy. The following describes the causes and symptoms of epilepsy.

What are the causes and symptoms of epilepsy?

Brain damage and brain injury, in embryonic development by virus infection, radiation or other reasons caused by embryonic dysplasia can cause epilepsy, fetal production process, birth injury is also a major cause of epilepsy, brain injury can also cause epilepsy. Other brain diseases, brain tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, intracranial infections, etc.

Patients with epilepsy in fever, systemic infection, surgery, mental stress and excessive fatigue, even maintain the effective blood concentration can also induce persistent state. Induced status epilepticus reason is more, such as food poisoning, or drinking, and excessive work, will lead to this phenomenon. In addition, water, electrolyte disorders, congenital metabolic abnormalities can also lead to the occurrence of status epilepticus.

The basic symptoms include: generalized tonic clonic seizures (major seizures): sudden loss of consciousness, followed by tonic clonic spasm, often accompanied by screaming, cyanosis, urinary incontinence, tongue bite, mouth foaming or blood foam, mydriasis, lasting for tens of seconds or a few minutes, the spasm stops naturally, enters into a state of lethargy, and has a short period of dizziness, irritability and fatigue after waking up, Can't recall the process of the attack, if the attack continues, has been in a coma state, said the big attack persistent state, often dangerous and life. Absence seizures (small seizures): sudden interruption of mental activity, loss of consciousness, can be accompanied by myoclonus or automatism, a seizure for several seconds to more than ten seconds, EEG appears 3 times / second spike slow wave or sharp slow wave syndrome. Simple partial seizure: ankylosis, clonic seizure, or paresthesia of a certain part or side of the limb, which lasts for a short time and has clear consciousness. If the range of seizure extends along the motor area to other limbs or the whole body, it may be accompanied by loss of consciousness, which is called Jackson's seizure. After the seizure, the affected limb may have temporary paralysis, which is called Todd's paralysis. Complex partial seizures (psychomotor seizures): psychosensory, psychomotor and mixed seizures. Most of them have different degrees of consciousness disorders and obvious thinking, perception, emotion and psychomotor disorders. They may have automatic symptoms such as wandering and nocturnal travel. Sometimes, under the control of hallucinations and delusions, they may have violent behaviors such as wounding and self injuring. Autonomic nervous seizures (diencephalic): headache type, abdominal pain type, limb pain type, syncope type or cardiovascular attacks.

matters needing attention

Epilepsy patients should not reduce or stop taking antiepileptic drugs, so as not to cause status epilepticus, overcome inferiority and fear, avoid fatigue, tension and other factors, strengthen physical exercise, have regular daily life, avoid tobacco and alcohol and other stimulating food, strictly prohibit driving, swimming, going out alone at night and other activities, if there is a sign of seizures, should immediately lie down, avoid falling.