What causes epilepsy?
If some patients have epilepsy, it is generally caused by heredity. Because suffering from epilepsy for a long time, it may even lead to a substantial increase in the psychological pressure of patients. If some people are too frightened, it may also lead to epilepsy, and brain diseases or brain injuries may also lead to epilepsy.
How to give first aid when epilepsy occurs?
1, let the patient lie on his back quickly without a pillow, and wrap the tongue depressor or chopsticks between the upper and lower molars (posterior teeth) with a soft cloth or towel (note: don't block the mouth) to prevent the patient from biting his tongue. Immediately loosen the collar, make the patient's head tilt to one side, make oral secretions flow out by themselves, and prevent saliva from entering the airway by mistake, causing aspiration pneumonia. At the same time, the patient's jaw should be lifted to prevent the tongue from falling back and blocking the trachea. Family members of patients should also learn to observe the performance of patients before the attack, so as to take preventive measures as soon as possible to prevent other accidental injuries. When the patient has no seizure, acupuncture or finger pinching at points such as Renzhong and Hegu can sometimes prevent epileptic seizures.
2, a small attack, the patient shows a brief loss of consciousness, usually only a few seconds, no convulsions, pale or red face, children show circles and so on. , generally easy to be ignored. Localized epilepsy usually manifests as localized convulsions of hands, feet and face. Those who find the above performance must go to the hospital for examination and treatment, and insist on taking medicine according to the doctor's advice.
3. How to care for epilepsy? If limb convulsions occur during the attack, you can protect your limbs with bedding or hands to prevent joint dislocation and fracture. Once the convulsion stops, it can help the patient to do artificial respiration and restore normal breathing.
No seizures. Can you find out?
Epilepsy patients don't just discharge during seizures. In fact, they usually have abnormal discharges, but they will not cause clinical attacks. When these discharges gradually increase and accumulate to a certain extent, it will cause clinical attacks. Because of the short time of EEG examination in outpatient department, most epilepsy patients get intermittent EEG when doing EEG in outpatient department. In the past, due to the limitation of medical conditions and examination methods, many epilepsy patients could not find the cause, so some doctors thought that epilepsy without cause was called "primary" epilepsy, and epilepsy with cause found was called "secondary" epilepsy.
What is epilepsy?
Epilepsy is actually a chronic disease with brain dysfunction caused by abnormal nerve discharge. Most patients will have different degrees of seizures after suffering from epilepsy. Many epileptic patients can't continue their normal life because of repeated seizures, which is a deep blow and harm to patients. Therefore, it is suggested that patients should contact doctors in time, treat as soon as possible, be optimistic, establish confidence in overcoming the disease, and adhere to long-term treatment, which is more conducive to the treatment and rehabilitation of patients.