China News Service, August 27 (Chen Jing and Xu Min) Recently, a 19-year-old boy in Shanghai suffered a seizure and was injured in the subway. Hu Xudong, a 47-year-old poet and associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages of Peking University, passed away due to sudden epilepsy, which attracted many sighs. .
Emergency treatment of patients with epilepsy has attracted much attention.
Shang Li, an epilepsy expert and director of the Department of Epilepsy at Shanghai Deji Hospital, said in an interview with reporters on the 27th: “Epilepsy is often unpredictable, so patients should try not to be alone, and avoid staying in noisy places and confined hypoxia in life. Space, staying up late and overworked."
"Epilepsy is a chronic disease of the nervous system caused by the abnormal discharge of the brain. Symptoms include general twitching, foaming at the mouth, stunned, nodding, etc.. If it is not controlled for a long time, it will lead to cognitive decline, memory loss, and physical disability. Etc." Director Shang Li introduced.
The expert said that the seizure itself is not fatal, but the patient will lose consciousness during the seizure. If you are crossing the road, swimming, riding a motorcycle, etc., a serious accident may occur.
In addition, a foreign body or a large amount of secretions in the mouth during a seizure may also block the trachea and cause suffocation.
"Seizures are often unpredictable, so patients try not to be alone as much as possible, and avoid staying in noisy places, airtight hypoxic spaces, staying up late and being overworked in life." Director Shang Li reminded.
Shang Li said that if there is a seizure in a public place, the patient should be placed on a flat ground, lying on his side or tilting his head to one side to facilitate the discharge of oral secretions; loosen the collar to allow the patient to breathe smoothly and keep the surrounding air circulating; from the bottom up Slap on the back so that oral secretions can be discharged; do not force restraint when the patient is convulsing, and remove the sharp objects around to prevent the patient from being injured.
The expert said that non-professionals should not use hard objects (keys, spoons, chopsticks, etc.) to pry the teeth of patients. If the hard objects break, the teeth are pried off, and the airway is accidentally inhaled, it may cause the patient's life to be in danger.
Under normal circumstances, because the patient has a short epileptic seizure (termination within 1 to 3 minutes), he can go to the hospital after the seizure stops and his consciousness recovers. There is no need to send the seizure patient to the hospital.
However, the patient has trauma; the patient is pregnant or suffering from diabetes; the patient continues to have seizures for more than 5 minutes or has frequent seizures one after another. You need to dial 120 or contact the nearest medical staff for emergency treatment.
Shang Li called on more people to pay attention to epilepsy, learn about epilepsy emergency treatment, and help patients get timely treatment at critical times.
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