How to tell if it’s a breath-holding seizure or a seizure

Breath-holding seizures or epilepsy are mainly differentiated by EEG and combined with the patient’s clinical symptoms. During a breath-holding seizure, babies tend to hold their breath, change their breath, stop breathing, turn blue at the lips, and even cause loss of consciousness, generalized rigidity, and spasmodic twitching of limb muscles, etc., due to adverse stimuli, but the EEG examination is mostly normal. On the other hand, epilepsy tends to occur suddenly during a seizure, and will quickly return to normal after a short period of time. During a seizure, there will be symptoms such as generalized rigidity, convulsions, foaming, etc., and the electroencephalogram examination will be abnormal phenomena. If the patient has an abnormal situation, it is necessary to consult the doctor in time to cooperate with the examination, after a clear diagnosis of the disease targeted treatment.