Epilepsy is a chronic neuropsychic disorder characterized by repeated seizures and accompanied by a variety of clinical and paraclinical symptoms, according to an online edition for girls and women aged 14 to 35 years Pannochka. net Reasons:.

Although seizures can be observed in many diseases and, thus, can be associated with them, the true cause of epilepsy is unknown. Studies show that this disease occurs when a certain area of ??the brain is damaged, but not completely destroyed. It is the affected, but surviving cells that are the source of pathological discharges, and consequently, seizures. Sometimes during a seizure, a new brain damage occurs, near or in the distance from the previous. So additional epileptic foci are formed.

Until now, it is not known why one and the same disease in one patient is accompanied by seizures, while the other - not. Even more mysterious is the fact that some people who have had a seizure do not repeat it in the future, while others have frequent repeated seizures. The genetic predisposition is probably important, but the type of inheritance is not clearly established. Apparently, epilepsy is caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors, including those borne by diseases.

Symptoms:.

Epileptic seizure is preceded by an aura - a short period (1-3 min), including a variety of sensations without loss of consciousness. In young children, the aura is expressed by motor anxiety or immobility (fading), gastrointestinal disorders, sweating, flushing of the face. Small children ask for hands, rub their eyes with hands, senior point to visual, taste, sound, olfactory hallucinations, vegetative reactions, etc.. Then suddenly they lose consciousness, which is preceded by a shrill scream or groan (spasm of the glottis), and a seizure begins: the baby falls, the muscles tense, then the phase of clonic seizures begins. The attack in children differs by the predominance of the tonic phase and the greater duration of the seizure. The color of the face during the latter changes from pale at the beginning of the attack to purple-cyanotic at the end. Breath noisy, raucous. Foam is emitted from the mouth, colored with blood, involuntary urination, defecation occur, pupils do not react to light. After a seizure comes a different length of sleep. With awakening, children complain of weakness, headache, oppression. In addition to generalized seizures, children have abortive seizures, when a certain group of muscles (face, hands, etc.) are seizure. ) - the so-called incomplete convulsive seizures. There are also Jacksonian motor attacks caused by the defeat of the motor zone of the cortex of the cerebral hemispheres.

In the convulsive process, muscles or a group of muscles of the contralateral cortex are involved. A feature of this seizure is the absence of a tonic phase. Clonic convulsions occur in full consciousness, then spread to adjacent muscles and pass into general convulsions with loss of consciousness or an attack limited to the initial clonic stage. Young children often have small seizures, or absences, - short-term loss of consciousness with tonic convulsions or clonic equivalents, the fit itself is short, sometimes goes unnoticed.

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