How to handle a Epileptic Seizure ?

May draw people because they are afraid that you will not know what to do if a person has a seizure. This is natural. This can be very disturbing to witness convulsive tonic-clonic seizures, and even the nurses do not see every day. However, knowing what to do if the crisis is a great practical way in which the fear of epilepsy can be solved.

Attacks can not be stopped, so do not try to limit a person during an attack, or let other people interfere, crowd round, or try to touch the person.

Convulsive seizures

Place something soft under the head of the person and only move if it is in danger (for example, on the road). Do not put anything into the mouth of the person. Once the convulsions have stopped, roll the person beside him in the recovery position. Clean all the saliva and whether the person is still breathing with difficulty, make sure that nothing in the mouth as food. Stay with the person to help calm until he feels able to continue with their activities or to arrange transport so you can go home and rest.

No convulsive seizures:

These attacks may require different responses vary. The prolonged confusion

Gently guide the person away from obvious dangers such as trafficking. Talk calmly and softly to the person to help them reorient their own. Stay with the person until he can resume what you were doing. Note that you can be confused for some time after the attack, and because of this may sound aggressive, it may be best to stay fairly quiet until it is fully able to manage alone.

Get medical help if:

A seizure lasts more than five minutes and you do not know how long they usually last. A person who has trouble breathing after the seizure. The person who was seriously injured during the seizure.

Finally … adapt to epilepsy - a constant process

Adjustment to epilepsy May be a developmental process. Many of epilepsy is a dynamic, not static. Only when it has reached agreement with epileptic seizures, which can change its type and intensity, for example, moving from the night going through the whole day. Although the changes, obviously, must be reported to the doctor and treated accordingly, of course, this means that you agree with the ‘property of epilepsy, “more and more again.

By the same token, however, the same process that causes many people find their May. Epilepsy improvement over time, with less intense attacks, worry less, and sometimes completely. Regardless of the nature of your epilepsy, it is worth taking steps to be considered in depth at intervals.

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