First aid for whole body convulsions

In daily life, certain diseases may cause whole body convulsions, which is very harmful to health. In such unexpected situations, you must learn first aid methods, especially before the doctor comes, you must take emergency measures. If vomiting occurs, you must clear the vomitus to avoid breathing difficulties, prevent the tongue from falling back, prevent biting the tongue, etc. Let us learn about the first aid methods for whole body convulsions.

(I) Emergency measures taken before the doctor arrives: 1. Immediately lay the patient flat on the bed, with the head tilted to one side and slightly tilted back, the neck slightly raised, and the patient's tie, belt, waistband, etc. loosened, taking care not to let the patient fall to the ground. 2. Quickly clear the secretions and vomit from the mouth, nose, throat and throat to ensure the patency of the respiratory tract and prevent the tongue from falling back. To prevent the teeth from biting the tongue, a tongue depressor or chopsticks wrapped in gauze or cloth should be placed between the upper and lower teeth. And pinch and press the Ren Zhong and Hegu acupoints with your fingers. All the above requirements must be completed quickly within a few seconds. 3. Prevent the patient from colliding with surrounding hard objects and getting injured during violent convulsions, but never press down the convulsing limbs with force to avoid causing fractures.

Clinical manifestations of sudden convulsions

1. Generalized tonic convulsion: The muscles of the whole body are rigid and twitching in waves, showing opisthotonos (head tilted back, whole body bent backward in a bow shape), eyes rolled up or staring, and the patient is unconscious. 2. Localized convulsions: only local muscles twitch, such as twitching of only one side of the limbs, or twitching of facial muscles, or twitching of fingers and toes, or eye movements, nystagmus, blinking, staring, etc. Most are unconscious. The above convulsions can last for a few seconds or several minutes, and in severe cases can last for several minutes or recur repeatedly. Convulsions lasting more than 30 minutes are called persistent state convulsions. 3. Febrile convulsions: mainly seen in children between 6 months and 4 years old who have convulsions when they have high fever. High fever convulsions are short-lived, and consciousness recovers quickly after the convulsion. They often occur in the early stages of a fever. During a fever, there is often only one convulsion. Brain diseases and other serious illnesses can be ruled out, and an EEG will be normal one week after the fever subsides.