How to deal with and prevent seizures when they occur?

  Some people think that if you have epilepsy, you are finished for life and are not disabled or dumb. In fact, this perception is wrong. Epilepsy is a treatable disorder, and as long as it is diagnosed and treated correctly and in a timely manner, most patients do not affect their growth and development, receive a good education, perform their jobs competently and enjoy a fulfilling family life.  Can epilepsy be prevented?  Some epilepsies can be prevented by taking proactive measures: genetic predisposition makes some children “susceptible” to convulsions, which can be triggered by various environmental factors to produce seizures. In this regard, the importance of genetic counseling is particularly emphasized. A detailed systematic family survey should be conducted to find out whether the patient has seizures and their characteristics in both parents, siblings and close relatives, and whether there is a history of febrile convulsions.  1. For families with certain serious genetic disorders causing mental retardation and epilepsy, prenatal diagnosis, or neonatal screening, should be performed when conditions permit to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy or treat it early.  In order to prevent epilepsy caused by brain injury at birth, early measures should be taken or cesarean section should be performed if the birth process is expected to be uneventful in cases of advanced primigravida and uncorrected abnormal fetal position to avoid future epilepsy caused by hypoxia, asphyxia and birth injury during the birth process.  For epilepsy caused by various intracranial infections, the main thing is to actively prevent the occurrence of these infections, and once intracranial infectious diseases occur, early diagnosis and correct treatment should be made to reduce the degree of brain tissue damage. In the acute phase of intracranial infection, many patients often have seizures. Anti-epileptic drugs should be used in a timely and adequate amount to reduce the damage to brain tissue caused by seizures and also to reduce the chance of seizures in the future.  4, prevention of epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury, focusing on the prevention of traumatic brain injury, avoid traumatic brain injury caused by work, traffic accidents.  5. Patients with febrile convulsions may turn into epilepsy. For febrile convulsions with the possibility of recurrent seizures, preventive measures should be taken early to reduce brain damage caused by febrile convulsions to reduce the incidence of epilepsy.  6. Removing seizure triggers is also one of the important aspects of preventing seizure recurrence, such as alcohol consumption, fatigue, mental depression, overeating, infectious diseases, fright, fever, sleep deprivation, marriage of close relatives and harmful sound and light stimulation.  What is the emergency treatment for seizures?  Most seizures are transient in nature and usually rarely last more than 5 minutes and resolve spontaneously. In general, there is no need to rush to the hospital for resuscitation unless the seizure persists and requires emergency treatment. When a patient has a seizure, especially a full-blown tonic-clonic seizure, take care to protect against falls, burns, etc. Some family members force their fingers or chopsticks into the patient’s mouth to pinch or bite their tongue, which is unnecessary and can sometimes even cause other injuries. Do not forcibly give the patient medicine during an attack, as this can cause choking and choking.