Child seizures

Convulsions are really terrible. Most parents in children onset seizures are helpless, especially when you encounter such a situation is for the first time that\'s all. To determine if the child is a convulsion or syncope, or simply shaking caused by high fever, it is more difficult. First, you should know is that not all seizures are caused by epilepsy. Although the \"General convulsions\" and \"epileptic convulsion\" Symptoms of same, but if child is recurrent seizures and no obvious incentive, it is probably of epilepsy.
What is a convulsion
Seizure is the result of cranial nerve dysfunction. The brain is like a computer, controls the activities of billions of nerve cells in the body. Under normal circumstances, these activities are controlled by the brain of height control. At the time of seizure, a temporary dysfunction of the brain, interfere with the normal activity of the brain. Seizures are divided into two broad categories: systemic attack (that is, whole brain involvement) and partial attack (that is, affect only part of the brain).
Convulsion in children are mainly divided into two categories: \"ankylosing clonic seizure\" (old known as the \"Grand Mal\") and \"absence seizure\" (old saying \"Petit Mal\"). The former case is more common, at the onset of child will lose consciousness, body stiff, fell to the ground, and then the limb beyond the control of seizures, and may be accompanied by tongue biting, urinary incontinence. After the attack, children usually sleep for some time, temporary memory loss can also occur. Convulsion absence seizure appear as the child suddenly stopped being done daze, after a while and then continue doing the things. Probably nobody will notice this symptom, even noticed or thought that child is daydreaming.
Type more than 40 kinds of seizures, each outbreak situation may differ. There are two most common occurrence of convulsions in children, fever is a febrile seizures, epilepsy is another.