What rescue measures should parents take when a child with epilepsy has a seizure

  The family should take rescue measures when facing the child’s seizure: 1. Remove any hard or dangerous objects from the body and eliminate sharp objects around the child.  2. Be careful to keep the child quiet and immediately lay the child flat on his back with his face to the right.  3.Be sure to unbutton the clothes and dry the saliva around the mouth. Remove the mucus from the mouth and nose in time to prevent asphyxiation by inhalation.  4.Do not give him anything to eat. To prevent tongue bite, put chopsticks wrapped with cloth pads between the upper and lower molars, and if the teeth are tightly closed, do not insert them forcibly.  5, do not put your finger into the child’s mouth, at this time he does not know what he is doing, beware of biting through your finger.  6, do not use dial cold water, patting, shaking the affected child to make it end the seizure.  7. Even if the seizure child has painful symptoms, he actually feels nothing. Do not grab or try to stop it, but prevent him from causing unnecessary injury, and stay by the child’s side all the time.  8. Observe and record the child in detail during the seizure.  9.If a convulsive seizure lasts more than 5 minutes, cannot be relieved or recurs within a short period of time, a doctor must be called immediately for emergency treatment.  10.After the seizure is over, comfort the child, try to exclude his worries, persuade him to continue to adhere to medication treatment, which will effectively control the seizure, so that he can build up confidence to overcome the disease.