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Epilepsy is a group of symptoms and signs of transient abnormal brain function caused by abnormal electrical discharges of brain cells.
Epilepsy patients are often the same as ordinary people when they do not have seizures, and they can suddenly lose consciousness during seizures, fall to the ground due to muscle contraction throughout the body, twitching of hands and feet, foaming at the mouth, cyanosis of the lips, incontinence, etc. After the seizure, the patient has no memory of the whole seizure, often feels headache, soreness and drowsiness. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is of great value in the diagnosis of epilepsy.
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Epilepsy (epilepsy) is a disease and syndrome characterized by intermittent central nervous system dysfunction caused by recurrent and sudden overfiring of neurons in the brain.
Attack. It is a disorder of varying degrees of motor sensory, autonomic, consciousness and mental state that originates in the brain and acts backwards. This definition encapsulates the complexity of epilepsy symptoms and the two basic characteristics of epilepsy, namely recurrent and episodic.
The so-called repetition means that after the first seizure, after a period of time, there will definitely be a second, third, or even multiple seizures. Even the most common seizures, if they occur only once, are not recurrent and cannot be diagnosed as epilepsy. Episodic refers to the sudden onset and abrupt cessation of symptoms.
We may have seen patients who suddenly fall to the ground and have convulsions while walking or eating, and then return to normal after a while. There are also children with abdominal epilepsy who suddenly have severe abdominal pain, cry or fall to the ground, and continue to play after a few minutes or dozens of minutes. Both of these features must be present, no matter how complex the symptoms of epilepsy are.
It is also an important basis for diagnosing epilepsy.
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(1) Grand mal seizures, also known as generalized seizures, half of them have aura, such as dizziness, mental confusion, epigastric discomfort, audio-visual and olfactory disorders. During the seizure (spasmodic seizure period), some patients first make a sharp scream, and then have both loss of consciousness and fall, there is muscle rigidity of the whole body, breathing pause, head and eye can be deviated to one side, a few seconds later, there are clonic convulsions, the convulsions gradually worsen, lasting dozens of seconds, the clonic period of breathing resumes, and the mouth foams at the mouth (such as the tongue is bitten and blood foams). Some patients have incontinence, flaccid convulsions, or lethargy (lethargy), after which consciousness gradually returns.
2) small seizures, which can be transient (5 to 10 seconds) with impaired or loss of consciousness without generalized spasms. There may be multiple seizures per day, sometimes rhythmic blinking, head lowering, direct eyes, and upper limb twitching. (3) Psychomotor seizures (also known as complex partial seizures), which can be manifested as sudden seizures, confusion, irregular and uncoordinated movements (such as sucking, chewing, seeking, shouting, running, struggling, etc.).
The patient's actions are unmotivated, aimless, blind, and impulsive, and the seizures last for hours, sometimes for days. The patient has no memory of the seizure. (4) Localized seizures, generally seen in patients with organic damage to the cerebral cortex, manifested as episodic tics or paresthesias at one side of the mouth, fingers or toes, which can spread to one side of the body.
When seizures involve both sides of the body, they can manifest as grand mal seizures.
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There are many kinds of epilepsy, such as primary and secondary, so everyone's seizures are different, there are nocturnal seizures, they are all petit mal seizures at the beginning, and it is like being out of breath when you are sleeping, and you suddenly wake up from a dream. Moreover, the onset of the disease is not frequent, so this situation is often due to the negligence of the people who cause it, and it is impossible to imagine the disease in this area. A little bit heavier and heavier, suddenly one day when I fell asleep, I couldn't breathe, my eyes were straight, and my whole body was convulsed.
After going to the hospital, I realized that because the indirect illness is not frequent, a month or two months, and some people have never been sick during the day, they only get sick when they are sleeping, and sometimes they are scared to death to the family, crying on the side, but the sick person doesn't know at all, but the next morning when he gets up, he will feel uncomfortable and have no strength! So be sure to detect it early!!
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Hello, epilepsy has different manifestations due to different types of seizures, and the common manifestations are.
Grand mal seizures: sudden loss of consciousness, falling to the ground, head tilted back, roaring due to diaphragm spasm, twitching of limbs, foaming at the mouth, bluish complexion, upturned eyes, sometimes accompanied by incontinence, inability to recall the seizure process after the seizure, general pain and weakness.
Petit mal seizures, also known as absence seizures, are characterized by a sudden cessation of speech and activity, staring or staring in both eyes, and landing on the ground with objects in hand, and continuing the original activity after the seizures have stopped.
Localized seizures of epilepsy are manifested by local or one limb twitching, which may extend to the whole if the epileptic discharge spreads.
Psychomotor seizures: (also known as complex partial seizures), which can manifest as sudden, confused, and irregular and uncoordinated movements (e.g., sucking, chewing, seeking, shouting, running, struggling, etc.).
There are many ways to diagnose epilepsy.
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