Patient's question:
How to distinguish epilepsy from fainting?Doctor's answer:
Hello, it can be distinguished from clinical diagnostic symptoms. Epileptic patients are unaware and lose consciousness during seizures. Generalized seizures may involve convulsions of the limbs, foaming at the mouth, and upward gaze of the eyes, etc. Fainting may involve dizziness, nausea, and dry heaving, with very few cases of limb convulsions. During recurrence, EEG can show abnormal brain waves in epilepsy patients, while fainting EEG is generally normal. Fainting is more easily detected due to insufficient blood supply to the brain.