Physical convulsions in the elderly may be caused by epilepsy, calcium deficiency, meningitis, cerebral hemorrhage and other causes.
1. Epilepsy: the elderly suffer from epilepsy, epilepsy is one or more causes of highly synchronized abnormal neuronal discharge in the brain clinical syndrome, this abnormal discharge can be spread to the surrounding, involved in the involvement of motor function area, abnormal limb movement, manifested as physical convulsions.
2. Calcium deficiency: when the elderly body is deficient in calcium and insufficient calcium supplementation and hypocalcemia occurs, due to the decrease in the concentration of serum free calcium, leading to the increase of neuromuscular excitability, the symptoms of convulsions will also occur.
3. Meningitis: when the elderly suffer from meningitis and intracranial infection, the toxins and inflammatory factors produced by the pathogenic bacteria cause damage to the brain tissue, which can lead to abnormal discharges in the brain tissue and cause fever and convulsions.
4. Cerebral hemorrhage: the elderly suffer from cerebral hemorrhage, due to hypertension combined with small arteriosclerosis, microvascular aneurysm rupture and other factors leading to primary non-traumatic cerebral parenchymal hemorrhage, the brain cells are compressed by the ischemia, necrosis, and the death of the brain cells to form a scar hematoma, the mass stimulation of the remaining cerebral nerve cells to produce abnormal discharges, there will be the symptom of physical convulsions.
Elderly body twitching causes more, specific to go to the hospital to check the judgment, clear cause after targeted.