Patient's question:
I'm almost a year old. When I got up and went downstairs this morning, I suddenly felt my limbs stiff and my lips turned purple. This lasted for about a minute, after which I felt a bit weak. I went to the emergency room for blood tests, which were normal, but the EEG and CT scans haven't been done yet. Everything is normal now, and my family has no history of epilepsy. I hope this can be explained. Thank you!Doctor's answer:
Because patients with epilepsy have convulsive symptoms during seizures, but not all convulsions are caused by epilepsy. Therefore, one common misconception is to consider all convulsions as epilepsy. Other diseases can also cause convulsions, such as psychogenic convulsions, hypocalcemic convulsions, febrile convulsions in children, hypoglycemic convulsions, etc., which do not fall under the category of epilepsy. Therefore, convulsions are not necessarily caused by epilepsy. At the same time, some types of epilepsy patients do not have convulsive symptoms, such as absence seizures, temporal lobe epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, and headache epilepsy. Therefore, convulsions should not be equated with epilepsy.