How to give first aid when you have a seizure?

  1. Family members should always stay by the patient’s side and wait for the seizure to stop. Quickly hold the patient to prevent a fall, and then place them on a flat surface or a safe place. Untie the collar and cuffs so that the airway is open for whistling, and turn the head and body sideways to prevent the flow of saliva and mucus into the airway. Observe carefully which parts of the body twitch during a seizure, whether there is consciousness and perception, and record the duration so that you can describe it to the doctor (if possible, have someone else take a video of the seizure with a cell phone so that you can easily show the doctor the specific form of the seizure during the consultation).  2.Patients with epilepsy who are having a seizure should try to avoid excessive panic and being overwhelmed, not to mention the following inappropriate measures: ① forcibly insert hard objects or fingers into the patient’s enclosure (easy to be bitten or damage the patient’s teeth); ② forcibly press or catch the patient (easy to soft tissue contusion or even fracture); ③ instantly take medicine or drink water (easy to accidentally inhale)  3. In general, since the patient’s seizure is short-lived (terminated within 1~3 minutes), the patient can wait until the seizure stops and consciousness is restored before going to the hospital. Exceptions to this are: ① Patients with trauma; ② Patients who are pregnant or have diabetes; ③ Patients who have sustained seizures for more than 5 minutes.  4. If a patient with epilepsy has a seizure that lasts too long, continues for more than a few minutes, or has one seizure after another, the patient is in critical condition and should be resuscitated in a timely manner. At this point, you should immediately seek help from the hospital or emergency center.  5, convulsions, the family should let the patient lie on his side or tilt his head to the side to prevent intraoral secretions and gastrointestinal reflux vomit accidentally inhaled into the whistle, resulting in asphyxia or aspiration pneumonia.