What's wrong with a seizure?

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2025-05-24 12:55:28 Views: 76 times

Low calcium convulsions, febrile convulsions and other convulsions in children are mainly children suddenly show limb spasms, convulsions, often accompanied by foaming at the mouth, limb stiffness, sometimes accompanied by consciousness disorders. This is a pediatric emergency, mainly in the following aspects more common: First, children with low calcium convulsions, often due to lack of calcium in children feeding caused by low blood calcium, resulting in increased excitability of muscle nerves caused by convulsions, often children under one year old. Convulsions are also limb spasms, foaming at the mouth, often given calcium treatment, can be quickly relieved. Second, febrile convulsions, often children in the process of fever to reach 38℃ suddenly produce limb convulsions, often accompanied by consciousness disorders. This disease is mainly caused by fever in children convulsions, mainly due to children's cerebral cortex development is not perfect, with the growth of children, gradually reduced after 7-8 years old, there are also some will develop into epilepsy. Third, epilepsy, which is the most common cause of convulsions in children, can be seen in children of any age, mainly due to brain diseases caused by abnormal discharge of cerebral cortex cells caused by limb convulsions. If this is the case, EEG and head CT, MRI examination should be carried out to determine the diagnosis can be anti-epileptic treatment.

What's wrong with a seizure?



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