Preparation and precautions before patient consultation Once you find out that you or a loved one has epilepsy, it is essential that you go to a regular hospital in a timely manner. If the seizure is unconscious, falls to the ground, or convulses for more than 5 minutes, you should go to the nearest hospital emergency department for treatment. If you want to further clarify the diagnosis, investigate the cause and obtain a long-term treatment plan after stabilization or remission, you can go to a regular tertiary care hospital with a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. It is best to do some preparation before coming to the clinic. Once the patient has a seizure, observe the seizure performance as much as possible, including whether the eyes are staring, whether the head is twisted, whether the face is blue or white, whether there is purple around the mouth, foaming at the mouth or tongue bite, whether the limbs are stiff and twitching, whether there is incontinence, whether there is fatigue, sleepiness, limb weakness, etc. after the seizure. It is best to record the patient’s seizure with a cell phone and show it to the doctor during the visit, as this is very helpful for diagnosis. Before the consultation, ask the patient or family to sort out the medical history, preferably in chronological order, and record the history of the attack, whether there is any aura before the attack, the time, place, trigger, frequency, performance and duration of the attack. The family history of epilepsy should be recorded in chronological order. In general, patients with epilepsy routinely require blood, urine, liver and kidney function, electrolytes and fasting blood glucose tests, so please have these tests done at your local hospital when you visit an out-of-town patient to shorten your visit. However, it is best to have an EEG done at a hospital designated by the doctor. Some patients may require special tests to determine the cause of epilepsy and the differential diagnosis of other diseases, which may vary from case to case. Bring all previous medical records, original EEGs and reports, cranial MRI or CT films and reports, and all laboratory tests in chronological order to the appointment. This is true even for follow-up visits. At the initial consultation, the child must usually be brought in for an in-person consultation. At the follow-up visit, if the child is not otherwise unwell, you may not bring them occasionally, but it is a good idea to bring them with you at intervals so that the doctor can look at them. Patients with epilepsy usually have a long medical history, and the doctor needs to take a careful history. Because of the large number of patients, there are young doctors who help the professor write the case so that it can be more efficient. We hope you will cooperate. The time of the visit is not necessarily the time you registered for the appointment, you know. Everyone’s condition is different, some are simple some are complicated, don’t make a lot of noise at the door. Please do not disturb the doctor in the middle of the consultation. Do not barge into the consultation room without your name being called. Please leave the room immediately after your visit and wait in the waiting area, and do not observe other patients. When it is your turn to see the doctor, please prepare your questions, you can print them out or write them down in a book, after the doctor asks the medical history, generally will answer one by one, please do not ask questions in the aisle, corridor, elevator, the doctor has seen a lot of patients, simply can not remember which one you are, what is your question, such questions indicate that you are not listening carefully or not prepared, the doctor will not give you an answer, because the answer The doctor will not give you an answer because the answer may not be accurate. Often patients or family members say that he “just asked a question” for various reasons, trying to cut in line to enter the consultation room, which is very unreasonable, to see the doctor to sit down and ask a clear context, in order to answer your sentence.