Symptoms and causes of convulsions in children

Convulsion is a common symptom in children's diseases, which is characterized by muscle twitching of limbs, unconsciousness and incontinence. Convulsion lasts for several minutes to more than ten minutes. When a child has convulsions, parents should not worry, and should conduct initial treatment at home.

The principle of initial family therapy

1. Hold the midpoint of the human body with your fingernails to stop the spasm.

2. If there is high fever, first take various cooling measures, such as: physical methods, that is, put an ice pack on the big blood vessels of the head or limbs, or rub the bath with 35% alcohol, or put the child in a ventilated and cool place.

3. Untie the collar of the sick child and let him lie on his side to prevent vomit from being inhaled into the lungs.

4. Wrap a small handkerchief with a tongue depressor (which can be replaced by a toothbrush handle or chopsticks) and put it between the upper and lower teeth to prevent biting the tongue.

Prevention of recurrence of febrile convulsion in children

When children with febrile convulsion have fever again, especially when their body temperature suddenly rises, antipyretics should be used to cool down, and some antispasmodic drugs (such as phenobarbital) can be taken to prevent it if necessary.

Spasm is a symptom of disease.

When children have convulsions due to illness, although it looks terrible from the outside, most children can be stopped if they are treated according to the principle of initial treatment of convulsions. However, at this time, parents must not think that the child's convulsions have stopped and the disease will be fine. It is necessary to send the child to the hospital for further diagnosis and treatment, find out the cause and treat the cause in time, otherwise it will delay the illness.