Common seizure patterns in epilepsy

  There are several common types of seizures as follows: 1. generalized tonic-clonic seizures: this is often called “sheep epilepsy”, a good person, suddenly shouted, then passed out, fell to the ground, while the eyes stared upward, the white of the eyes turned out, teeth clenched, foaming at the mouth, limbs first tightened, then twitching, lips When the patient was worried about whether his life was saved, the twitching stopped instantly and the patient then fell into a deep sleep. The above description is actually only one of the many forms of seizures, which is more commonly known as grand mal seizures.  Aphasic seizures: The patient’s ongoing behavior or activity suddenly stops, as if the video tape was pressed the pause button. The seizure usually ends after a few seconds or tens of seconds. Sometimes the seizure is combined with blinking, chewing and other actions. After the seizure, the original activity can be continued, and there is no memory of the seizure. Due to the short duration of seizures, they are often ignored by family members for a long time.  3. Myoclonic seizures: This type is more difficult to describe verbally. For example, if we are startled by someone shouting from behind and the whole body shakes, it is a generalized myoclonic seizure.  4. Loss of tension seizure: Imagine a puppet that was manipulated with strings, and suddenly all the strings are broken. The child’s seizure will be like the puppet with broken strings, and suddenly the whole body falls down weakly.  5, simple partial seizures: the above-mentioned types are all generalized seizures, during which the patient is unconscious and communication with the outside world is completely interrupted. However, in simple partial seizures, the patient is clearly conscious and has good communication with the outside world. The symptoms can be a twitching of one hand, one foot or half of the face, or there can be no twitching movements, but only strange sensations or a sudden unfamiliarity of the scene in front of the eyes. Some of them show hallucinations, seeing strange images in front of their eyes or hearing strange sounds in their ears all of a sudden.  6. Complex partial seizures: Usually the patient has a sense of imminent seizure before the seizure, and then various involuntary movements occur and the person loses consciousness and cannot remember the whole thing afterwards. The involuntary movements can be blinking, chewing, touching aimlessly with both hands or walking around, and so on. The whole seizure may last more than one minute.  7, infantile spasms: usually occurs in infants under 2 years of age, when waking up or going to sleep, there will be similar to nodding movements, like dozing, but the amplitude and intensity of the shaking is greater, usually in a few minutes, more than a dozen times in a row, or even up to 50 or 60 times, even lying in bed can be seen when the child’s head or trunk bouncing. If the movement is very large, it can also be combined with trunk flexion and reaching forward with both arms.