Epilepsy symptoms

Epilepsy, which is what people often call epilepsy, is a mental illness. When the disease occurs, the patient is often mentally confused. In our daily life, we often find that most patients with epilepsy are children, but adult patients are not excluded. Epilepsy is a serious human disease that is quite complicated to treat. Some severe cases can directly cause the patient's death.

Epilepsy is actually a disease caused by an imbalance of brain function due to some reasons. At the same time, as a neurological disease, epilepsy has a very high incidence rate, which is only slightly lower than that of stroke. So what are the symptoms and manifestations if someone suffers from epilepsy?

The common symptoms of epilepsy patients are as follows:

1. Generalized tonic-clonic seizure (grand mal seizure)

Refers to an attack of whole-body muscle twitching and loss of consciousness. Birth injuries, brain trauma, brain tumors, etc. are more common. Tonic-clonic seizures can occur at any age and are the most common type of seizure among all forms of epilepsy. Its typical attack can be divided into four clinical stages: prodromal stage, tonic stage, clonic stage, and recovery stage. During the attack, the EEG shows typical bursts of multiple spikes and spike-slow waves, and each spike-slow wave complex may be accompanied by muscle twitching.

2. Simple partial seizures

It refers to the symptoms corresponding to the function of local cortical discharges in the brain, including motor, sensory, autonomic, mental symptoms and signs. They were divided into four groups: ① with motor symptoms; ② with somatic or special sensory symptoms; ③ with autonomic nervous system symptoms and signs; ④ with mental symptoms.

3. Complex partial seizures

It is also commonly called a psychomotor seizure, accompanied by impaired consciousness. Auras often occur before or when consciousness is about to be lost, so the patient can still recall it after the attack.

4. Absence seizures (petit mal seizures)

It typically presents with a transient loss of consciousness without premonitory or postictal symptoms.

5. Status epilepticus

It refers to a single epileptic seizure that lasts more than 30 minutes, or epileptic seizures that occur frequently, so that the patient has not fully recovered from the previous seizure and another seizure occurs, with a total duration of more than 30 minutes. Status epilepticus is a medical emergency that requires emergency treatment.

Of course, in addition to the epilepsy symptoms introduced above, epilepsy patients often have other manifestations, which vary from person to person. If your friends or family members accidentally suffer from epilepsy, please be sure to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Only after the doctor determines the cause and condition of the disease and provides symptomatic treatment, will it be the most effective and beneficial to the body. Only in this way can the body recover as soon as possible.