What is a child convulsion

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The popular point of neonatal convulsion is that it is caused by fright. It is a disease related to nervous system. It also has a name of neonatal convulsion. Neonatal brain disorder caused by shock, let's talk about what the child convulsion is.

What is a child convulsion

First: neonatal convulsion, the medical name for neonatal convulsion, refers to the general or a part of the body muscle movement convulsion, is caused by the skeletal muscle involuntary strong contraction. It is mainly due to the imperfect development of the nervous system, the dysfunction of brain cells after the stimulation of fever and a variety of diseases, resulting in abnormal discharge of brain cells. It can be both benign and dangerous. Because the symptoms are not typical, difficult to identify, easy to misdiagnose, so the mortality is high, more sequelae.

Second: neonatal convulsion is not an independent disease, it is a symptom of temporary dysfunction of central nervous system caused by a variety of diseases. In the neonatal period is more common, especially the incidence of low birth weight is higher. Most of the children appear as the symptoms of micro convulsion, such as binocular gaze, eyelids, facial muscles, limbs twitch or irregular breathing.

Third: convulsion is a temporary disorder of cerebral cortex function, which causes abnormal discharge of brain cells. Performance: for the whole body or local skeletal muscle group suddenly occur involuntary muscle rigidity, clonic convulsions, and cause joint movement, mostly for the whole body, symmetry. It is often accompanied by disturbance of consciousness. Neonatal convulsion is often caused by perinatal asphyxia, traumatic intracranial hemorrhage, infection, metabolic abnormalities, etc.

matters needing attention

This disease is not an independent disease, it is caused by a variety of diseases, there are many manifestations of this symptom, such as the body unconsciously twitch, but also cause the symmetry of the whole body joint movement. This kind of disease is also very dangerous. It can also cause other symptoms, which need our more attention.