Early signs of epilepsy

  It is commonly known as sheep epilepsy and sow’s wind. It is a temporary brain dysfunction due to recurrent abnormal brain neuronal discharges.  Most of them start in childhood and adolescence. Lack of sleep, fatigue, hunger, alcohol consumption, excitement, and menstruation can all stimulate seizures. There are many forms of seizures in epileptic patients, the most common ones are grand mal seizures, petit mal seizures, limited seizures and psychomotor seizures.  1, grand mal seizures: the patient suddenly loses consciousness, falls and sometimes screams, pauses in breathing, foams at the mouth, generalized tonic convulsions, lip and tongue biting, incontinence. 5-10 minutes to recover.  2. Petit mal seizures: There are two types of seizures: (1) aphasic petit mal seizures: Suddenly both eyes stare or turn upward, fluttering, interrupting activities and language, dropping objects to the ground and calling out for a few seconds. (2) myoclonic petit mal seizures: Short (1-2 seconds) myoclonus occurs in the face, upper limbs, neck and trunk.  3) Restricted seizures: short paroxysmal twitching or numbness and tingling at the corner of one side of the mouth, eyelid, fingers, toes or the end of one side of the face and limbs. The twitching can sometimes extend from the fingers to the upper limbs to the opposite side.  4.Psychomotor seizure: similar to a minor attack of disorientation, but lasting more than 1 minute. Or a variety of hallucinations, delusions, unconscious movements, such as sucking, chewing, smacking, undressing, unbuttoning, etc.  5. The diagnosis of epilepsy often RU relies on EEG and cranial ding, magnetic resonance imaging (MRl), cerebral angiography, etc. EEG has special diagnostic value for this disease.  There is a type of epilepsy called limb pain epilepsy, which is a special type of limited epilepsy. This type of epilepsy is characterized by episodes of pain at the ends of the limbs and joint pain, so it is often misdiagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, neurosis, radiculitis, or poliomyelitis.  After having limb pain epilepsy, there are often episodes of severe limb pain that occur suddenly and stop abruptly, and can be relieved on their own without medication, and the patient is conscious during the seizure. In addition, this kind of limb pain is not detected by red, swollen or hot joints, and the pain attacks are not related to weather and seasons, so the use of painkillers is not effective.  In this type of limb pain epilepsy, if early diagnosis can be made as described above, the treatment effect is usually better, but if it is too late, it has more impact.