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Introduction Breathing, medically known as "convulsions", is a common emergency in childhood. When the wind blows, the consciousness of the sick child suddenly disappears, both eyes turn up and gaze strabismus; the muscles of the facial muscles or limbs are stiff, hard, squatting or twitching, and an episode can last from several seconds to several minutes. The various manifestations of children during the convulsion caused parents, especially young mothers, to be terrified and overwhelmed.

Cause

The causes of convulsions in children are very complicated. Common causes can be divided into two categories according to whether they are fever or not. One type is athermal convulsions, that is, without fever when convulsions, mainly including two diseases, one is low calcium hand and foot sputum in children. The disease is caused by the lack of calcium in the body. More common in babies under 1 year old. The other is epilepsy, which is the saying "shofar wind". Others are encephalitis sequelae, nuclear jaundice and so on.

The second type is febrile seizures, which are accompanied by fever, which mainly includes two diseases, one is due to hyperthermia caused by febrile seizures, and is more common in infants under 3 years old. The other is due to infections in the central nervous system, such as encephalitis and meningitis. Of course, there are other reasons, such as poisoning, tumors and so on.

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When the child is ventilating, the whole body or part of the muscles can be expressed, such as rigidity, twitching, and sputum. The rigidity is the muscles, the whole body is straight, and sometimes the head is tilted back. The serious body can be bent backwards into a bow. The medical name is called the angle bow. Reversal.

The so-called sputum is the twitching of the muscles, which can be expressed as the twitching of the hands and feet, or the twitching of the face. When the wind is exhausted, the general consciousness is lost, the eyes are turned up, the mouth is foaming, the consciousness is lost, the call should not be inevitable, the incontinence is incontinent, and sometimes the tongue can be bitten, and more sleep can be taken after smoking. The ventilation usually lasts for a short time, from a few seconds to a few minutes. Usually, it is sent to the hospital, and most of the ventilation has stopped. Severe cases can be repeatedly deflated several times, or last for dozens of minutes, children look bruising, irregular breathing, this time must race against time to send the sick to the hospital.

Differential diagnosis

Many diseases can cause children to ventilate, but the total can be divided into two types: febrile and non-thermal, low-heat convulsion.

Commonly caused by fever, convulsions, high fever, meningitis, various purulent meningitis, tuberculous meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, other viral meningitis, toxic encephalopathy, neonatal tetanus, brain abscess, etc. .

Causes of feverless or inefficient convulsions, intracranial hemorrhage, brain hypoplasia or malformation, severe cerebral hypoxia, infantile hand and foot snoring, hypoglycemia, uremia, hepatic coma, infantile spasm, epileptic pain, brain tumor Hypertensive encephalopathy, poisoning, etc.

In real life, the convulsion caused by high fever is the most common, and it is not uncommon for epilepsy.

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