Patient's question:
What are the symptoms of convulsions? Do newborns have them?Doctor's answer:
Discovery of infant convulsions: Parents should promptly take the child to the hospital. During the journey, parents should adopt emergency measures to prevent accidents.1. Wrap gauze or a small handkerchief around a chopstick or a small spoon and place it between the child's upper and lower teeth to prevent the tongue from being bitten. If the teeth are clenched tightly, do not force them open. Instead, insert the chopstick from both sides of the teeth towards the center.
2. Maintain an open airway. Loosen the child's collar and belt, let the child lie flat, and tilt the head to one side to prevent vomit from entering the respiratory tract and causing suffocation.
3. Acupuncture the philtrum point or apply firm pressure with fingers to the philtrum may sometimes also help relieve pain.
4. When the child convulses due to high fever, it is also necessary to let the child rest in a cool place, remove their clothes, and place a cold, wet towel on the forehead, armpits, and groin area to accelerate body heat dissipation and lower body temperature.
Facial muscle twitching, also known as facial spasm, has an unknown cause or etiology. It may be caused by pathological stimulation at certain points along the facial nerve pathway, leading to abnormal nerve impulses, hence it is also called primary facial muscle twitching. Most patients develop the condition after middle age, with more females affected. In the early stages, the condition often starts with intermittent twitching of the eyelids, gradually spreading slowly to other facial muscles on one side of the face. Severe twitching of the mouth corner muscles may involve the neck muscles on the same side. The severity of the twitching varies, and it may worsen due to fatigue, stress, or voluntary movement, but it cannot be controlled or imitated and stops during sleep.