Treatment of convulsions in children

Many children will experience convulsions. There are many reasons for convulsions. It may be caused by problems with the human nervous system, fainting caused by high fever, or adverse reactions in the brain. When it comes to children's fainting, people need to pay special attention and treat it in time. The following is a detailed introduction on how to treat children's convulsions.

For children with high fever convulsions, the first treatment is to clear the child's airway, remove respiratory secretions, and then provide oxygen. If the convulsion lasts for a long time, sedation treatment is required, either by local injection or rectal enema. At the same time, ECG monitoring will be carried out, drugs to protect brain cells will be given, some relevant tests will be conducted, and if necessary, the patient will be hospitalized in the intensive care unit.

Most childhood convulsions occur in the summer when the temperature is high and the body temperature is difficult to control. Generally, when a fever occurs, the child's family should actively give the child water to drink, urinate, help detoxification, do physical cooling, actively control the infection, and use some antiviral drugs. Especially for children who have had febrile convulsions in the past, or have a family history, such as the child's parents or grandparents, etc., they may have had convulsions when they were young. This is easy to inherit. At this time, we must actively pay attention, control the infection, reduce the fever, and go to the hospital if necessary.

Any sudden high fever caused by extracranial infection can cause convulsions in children, so febrile convulsions are the most common cause of convulsions in infancy and childhood. The incidence rate is approximately 2% to 8%. Has a significant genetic tendency. Its pathogenesis is still not fully understood. This may be mainly because the brain development of infants and young children is not yet complete, and their ability to analyze, identify and inhibit is poor. A weak stimulus can cause strong excitement and diffusion in the brain, leading to abnormal discharge of nerve cells and thus convulsions. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that young children have "pure yang bodies, and when they are affected by various pathogens, they develop heat very quickly, and extreme heat can cause wind."

Typical febrile convulsions are more common in children aged 6 months to 3 years and are rare after 6 years old. The children generally have a good physical constitution (pure yang body), and often have convulsions when the body temperature rises suddenly at the beginning of the disease (fever is generated very quickly, and wind is generated by extreme heat), which is more common in upper respiratory tract infections. Convulsions are generally systemic, with few episodes, short duration, and quick recovery, usually lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes, rarely exceeding 15 minutes, and consciousness returns to normal after the convulsion stops. There is no organic disease of the central nervous system and no abnormal signs of the nervous system can be found, and the prognosis is good. However, from then on, 30% to 50% of the children will be prone to convulsions when they have a fever, but these seizures generally no longer occur by school age. Rarely, more than two attacks occur during the same course of the disease. If the high fever persists, convulsions occur repeatedly or continue, you should be careful to rule out serious diseases of the central nervous system or other systems.