In our daily life, we may encounter the convulsions of others. It's terrible to see them, especially some children. But in the face of disease, due to everyone's ignorance, I don't know what to do? Now let's learn about the baby's convulsions, see why children have convulsions, children's convulsions and how to prevent children's convulsions?
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After the child has convulsions, the most worried thing is the parents. In the face of the child's convulsions, we should do a good job in relevant medical knowledge and understand why the child has convulsions in our daily life?
In children, febrile convulsions are called febrile convulsions. This is mainly due to the incomplete development of the infant nervous system. For example, the cerebral cortex has poor inhibitory function, and the nerve myelin sheath is not fully formed. Once stimulated by external stimuli, it is easy to spread and cause convulsions. For example, infants aged 6 months to 4 years, especially those with frequent fever, are more likely to develop high-temperature convulsions. When convulsions occur, most of them occur when the baby has high fever. For example, the body temperature is between 39 ℃ and 40 ℃, and the duration is relatively short, about 2-3 minutes. Generally no more than 10 minutes. When the convulsion stops, the children wake up.
Clinically, children with febrile febrile convulsions are divided into simple febrile convulsions and complex febrile convulsions. First of all, simple febrile convulsion is common in children from 6 months to 3 years old after birth. It has good physique. As a systemic disease, convulsion lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes, generally no more than 10 minutes, only once a day. The child will convulse after waking up soon, and his consciousness will return to drowsiness, but there is no abnormality in the nervous system. When he has an epileptic attack within two weeks, the EEG will be normal.
Secondly, complex febrile convulsions are more common in children under the age of one year or four. They occur several times a day for more than 15 minutes. Febrile convulsions occur more than 4 times, a few non systemic seizures and some seizures. After the attack, there were nervous system abnormalities such as temporary paralysis.
Symptoms of convulsions in children
There are some symptoms before children's convulsions, and this symptom will be more obvious in the process of convulsions. Then, what are the symptoms of children's convulsions?
Convulsions in children are mainly manifested as high fever (above 39 ° C), or sudden rise of body temperature, systemic or local muscle convulsions, double ball gaze, strabismus, straight or upturned, loss of consciousness. You can stop breathing for 1-2 minutes. Patients with severe symptoms may develop cyanosis, sometimes accompanied by urinary incontinence.
Therefore, once parents find that their baby has fever and convulsions, it is best to let the baby lie in bed first to ensure that the baby will not touch any sharp, sharp or hard objects. In addition to physical cooling, cold towels can also be placed on the baby's forehead, palm and thigh to help reduce body temperature. If you have convulsions, you should go to the hospital immediately.
How does infantile convulsion prevent
Children's convulsions are usually accompanied by fever. Therefore, after this situation occurs, we should do a good job is to treat the child acutely. No, in life, if you pay attention to these problems, you can also prevent the occurrence of children's convulsions.
To prevent fever and convulsion, children should first improve their baby's immunity, strengthen nutrition and regularly carry out outdoor activities to enhance their physique and improve their resistance. If necessary, use drugs that can improve immune function under the guidance of doctors.
Secondly, in order to prevent the change of cold weather, we must increase or decrease clothes in time to avoid catching cold. Try not to go to public places. Places with a large floating population, such as supermarkets, stations, cinemas, etc., to avoid catching a cold. If adults catch a cold at home, they need to wear masks and minimize contact with their babies; Open the windows to ventilate from time to time to keep the air in the home circulating.
Parents also need to know whether their child's temperature rises in advance. The frequency of fever in infants is high, so parents should pay more attention, especially the fever care of the baby at night, because most of the time the baby's temperature rises rapidly at night.
Causes of convulsions in adults
After adults have convulsions, they must be treated in time, otherwise it will seriously affect the life and health of patients. However, it is necessary for us to understand the causes of convulsions.
Convulsions are involuntary paroxysmal strong contractions of systemic or local muscles. Attacks may be tonic muscle contraction (continuous muscle contraction), clonic (intermittent muscle contraction) and mixed (continuous contraction and clonic contraction).
Convulsive diseases, such as hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia, convulsion and epilepsy. Hyperthermia, epilepsy, tetanus, rabies, calcium deficiency, etc. can cause systemic convulsions, as well as local convulsions, such as calf muscles (commonly known as calf abdomen), which are often caused by acute exercise or work fatigue or severe spasm in the ankle, usually when lying down or sleeping.
Symptoms of convulsions in adults
Unlike children, when adults have convulsions, we should consider whether there are other diseases. What are the symptoms of adult convulsions?
1. Generalized tetanic convulsions: muscular rigidity, wave convulsions, angular bow tension (head back, body bent back), eyes up or staring, coma.
2. Limited convulsions: only part of the muscle convulsions, such as only one side of the body, or facial muscle convulsions, or fingers and toes convulsions, or eye rotation, nystagmus, blinking action, gaze, etc. Most blurring cannot exceed a few seconds or several times. For a few minutes, the severe condition lasts for a few minutes or breaks out repeatedly, and the spasm lasts for more than 30 minutes.
3. Febrile convulsion: it is mainly seen in children aged 6 months to 4 years old with fever. Convulsion occurs when they have high fever. It occurs as a short term and recovers rapidly after smoking. It occurs in early fever and often convulsion. Brain diseases and other serious diseases can be ruled out, and one week after the EEG returns to normal.