What are the symptoms of epilepsy?

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Epilepsy, commonly known as "epilepsy" or "epilepsy", is a chronic disease of brain neurons sudden abnormal discharge, which leads to transient brain dysfunction. According to the latest epidemiological data in China, the overall prevalence of epilepsy in China is 7 per thousand, with an annual incidence of 28.8/ 100 thousand, and the incidence rate of active epilepsy in 1 years is 4.6 per thousand. It is estimated that there are about 9 million epilepsy patients in China, of which 5-6 million are active epilepsy patients. At the same time, about 400000 new epilepsy patients are added every year. In China, epilepsy has become the second most common disease after headache in neurology. What are the symptoms of epilepsy? Let's talk about it

What are the symptoms of epilepsy?

Generalized tonic clonic seizures: characterized by sudden loss of consciousness and generalized tonic and convulsions, the typical seizure process can be divided into tonic stage, clonic stage and late seizure stage. The duration of an attack is generally less than 5 minutes, often accompanied by tongue bite, urinary incontinence, and easy to cause asphyxia and other injuries. Tonic clonic seizures can be seen in any type of epilepsy and epilepsy syndrome.

Absence attack: the typical manifestation of absence is sudden occurrence, action stop, gaze, call it should not, may have blink, but basically without or accompanied by mild motor symptoms, the end is also sudden. Usually lasts 5-20 seconds, rarely more than 1 minute. It is mainly seen in children with absence epilepsy.

Ankylosis attack: it is characterized by the intense and continuous contraction of the whole body or bilateral muscles, muscle rigidity, so that the limbs and body are fixed in a certain tense posture, such as axial body extension, back flexion or forward flexion. It usually lasts from several seconds to tens of seconds, but generally not more than one minute. Tonic seizures are more common in epilepsy patients with diffuse organic brain damage, which is generally a sign of serious illness, mainly in children, such as Lennox Gastaut syndrome.

matters needing attention

① Good birth and good breeding are prohibited. During the first three months of pregnancy, we must stay away from radiation to avoid virus and bacterial infection. Regular pregnancy examination, to avoid fetal hypoxia, asphyxia, birth injury, etc. We should also take good care of children to avoid head injury. ③ Young people, middle-aged people and the elderly should pay attention to ensure a healthy lifestyle in order to reduce the incidence of encephalitis, meningitis, cerebrovascular disease and other diseases.