How to give first aid for a seizure?

      1. Family members should always stay by the patient’s side and wait for the seizure to stop. Quickly hold the patient to prevent a fall and then place him/her on a flat surface or a safe place. Untie the collar and cuffs to keep the airway open and turn the head and body sideways to prevent the flow of saliva, mucus, etc. into the airway. Observe carefully which parts of the body twitch during the seizure, whether there is consciousness and perception, and record the duration so that you can describe it to the doctor (if possible, have someone else take a video of the seizure with a cell phone to facilitate the doctor to view the specific form of the seizure during the consultation).       2.Patients with epilepsy who are having a seizure should try to avoid excessive panic and being overwhelmed, and not to take the following inappropriate measures: ① forcibly insert hard objects or fingers into the patient’s enclosure (easy to be bitten or damage the patient’s teeth); ② forcibly press or catch the patient (easy to soft tissue contusion or even fracture); ③ instantly take medicine or drink water (easy to accidentally inhale).       3. In general, since the patient’s seizure is short-lived (terminated within 1~3 minutes), the patient can wait until the seizure stops and consciousness returns before going to the hospital, and there is no need to send the patient who is having a seizure to the hospital. However, the following cases are excluded: ① the patient presents with trauma; ② the patient is pregnant or has diabetes; ③ the patient continues to have seizures for more than 5 minutes.       4. If a patient with epilepsy has a seizure that lasts too long, persists for more than a few minutes or has one seizure after another, it is a critical condition and should be rescued in time, otherwise it will cause serious consequences such as brain edema, brain herniation, respiratory and circulatory failure, or even death. At this time, you should immediately seek help from the hospital or emergency center.       5, convulsions, family members should let the patient lie on his side or tilt his head to the side to prevent intraoral secretions and gastrointestinal reflux vomit accidentally inhaled respiratory tract, resulting in asphyxia or aspiration pneumonia.