Symptoms of seizures

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Epilepsy is divided into small and large seizures, most of the use of drugs to control, drugs did not control, 2 to 3 years about 70% of the people will be cured. Let's share our experience on the symptoms of seizures.

Symptoms of seizures

Symptom 1: absence seizures: patients will suddenly lose consciousness, interrupt activities, language, but also with myoclonus or automatism, a seizure for several seconds to more than ten seconds.

Symptom 2: simple partial seizure: tonic clonic seizure of one part or one side of the limb, or abnormal sensory seizure, lasting for a short time, with clear consciousness. If the range of attack extends along the motor area to other limbs or the whole body, it may be accompanied by loss of consciousness.

Symptom 3: complex partial attack: patients have different degrees of consciousness disorders and obvious thinking, perceptual emotion and psychomotor disorders. Sometimes, under the control of hallucination and delusion, violent behaviors such as wounding and self injury can occur.

matters needing attention

Abstinence, smoking and alcohol can induce epilepsy, especially drinking more harmful, chronic alcoholism can cause changes in the structure and function of cerebral cortex, so that seizures. Sudden withdrawal of alcohol can also cause seizures in long-term alcohol addicts. Alcohol can also accelerate the metabolism of antiepileptic drugs, reduce blood concentration and reduce curative effect. Therefore, epileptic patients should be forbidden to drink all kinds of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.