What are the common clinical types of convulsions?

  The patient’s muscles in one or more parts of the body show rapid, repetitive, clonic or tonic involuntary contractions, called convulsions.  Common clinical types: i. Epileptiform convulsions: grand mal seizures, focal seizures, etc.; ii. Symptomatic convulsions: 1. Metabolic convulsions: such as subepilepsy, hypocalcemia, hepatic coma, etc.; 2. Toxic convulsions: seen in lead, mercury, arsenic and CO poisoning; 3. Infectious convulsions: sepsis, toxic bacillary dysentery; 4. Hypoxic convulsions: asphyxia, CO poisoning, etc.; 5. Convulsions due to intracranial disorders: such as tumors, trauma, parasites, inflammation, vascular malformations, etc.; 6. Parasites, inflammation, vascular malformation, etc.; 6, other hyperthermic convulsions, heliosis, etc.; 3, hysterical convulsions; 4, other nature convulsions: rabies, tetanus, hand-foot convulsions, etc.