Clinical manifestations of postpartum eclampsia

Eclampsia occurs in the postpartum period and is called postpartum eclampsia. It usually occurs within 48 hours after delivery and accounts for about 25% of eclampsia seizures. The clinical manifestations are convulsions that cannot be explained by other causes and progress rapidly on the basis of preeclampsia. The first symptoms are brief and manifest as convulsions, facial congestion, foaming at the mouth, deep coma, followed by deep muscle rigidity. It soon develops into a typical generalized hypertonic clonic convulsion with rhythmic muscle contraction and tension lasting about 1-1.5 minutes, during which the patient has no respiratory movements, after which the convulsions stop and respiration resumes, but the patient remains unconscious, and finally consciousness gradually returns, but confused, irritable, and easily irritable.