Patient's question:
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon, I accidentally fell down and cried out, hugging her and sobbing. After about thirty seconds, suddenly she stopped crying, her eyes turned white, her mouth was twisted, and her hands were clenched tightly. I was terrified, holding her and rushing to the hospital. There was still some foam in her mouth. For about three minutes, I bit her a few times, and her fingers turned back, but she wasn't.Doctor's answer:
Epilepsy is a chronic disease characterized by sudden, abnormal electrical discharges in brain neurons, leading to temporary dysfunction of the brain. An epileptic seizure, on the other hand, refers to a clinical diagnostic phenomenon caused by abnormal and excessive hypersynchronization of neuronal pulses in the brain. Its features are sudden and transient symptoms, which vary greatly depending on the location of the abnormal neurons in the brain. It can manifest with or without changes in consciousness or alertness, involving sensory, motor, or autonomic nerve activity. Sudden loss of consciousness, followed by tonic-clonic convulsions, intense pain. Often accompanied by screaming, bluish complexion, incontinence, bitten tongue, foaming at the mouth or blood foam, dilated pupils.