Epilepsy, commonly known as epilepsy, is a clinical syndrome caused by a variety of causes of brain neurons highly synchronized abnormal discharge. The disease is a stubborn disease of the nervous system, most of which have no typical symptoms. It can be diagnosed by combining auxiliary examination and clinical symptoms, which is generally difficult to detect early. Due to poor expression ability of children patients, more attention should be paid to observation.
Epileptic seizures have the characteristics of repetition, transience and stereotype, and the manifestations are different during seizures, mainly including the following categories:
1、 Simple partial seizures: It refers to the patient's consciousness is clear when the attack, manifested as one side of the limb rigidity, twitch attack, or local body numbness or acupuncture feeling and other abnormal attack symptoms, lasting for a short time. Can also be manifested as headache type, abdominal pain type or syncope type of autonomic nervous attack.
2. Complex partial seizures It refers to patients with epileptic seizures have varying degrees of fuzzy consciousness and obvious disorders of thinking, perception and movement, also known as psychomotor seizures.
3. Generalized attack It refers to the loss of consciousness in the early stage of attack, and then shows as the body tonic, limb clonic tic tic seizure, often accompanied by blue complexion, tongue bite, urinary incontinence, saliva or blood foam at the mouth, pupil dilation and other manifestations.
4. Absence attack: This is a special form of generalized seizures, characterized by sudden interruption of mental activities, loss of consciousness, accompanied by myoclonus or automatism, with a seizure of several seconds to more than 10 seconds.
In a word, the symptoms of epilepsy are various, but most of them are difficult to detect early, and can not be diagnosed by symptoms alone. Epilepsy can also cause great damage to the body function of patients, and even threaten the life safety of patients. Therefore, if the above-mentioned diseases appear, it is necessary to see a doctor in time and strive to maintain or restore its original physiological and social function.
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