{"id":39246,"date":"2024-01-06T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/uncategorized\/convulsive-seizures-what-to-do\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:34:28","slug":"convulsive-seizures-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/general-medicine\/convulsive-seizures-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Convulsive seizures: what to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>seizure<\/strong> is the result of a sudden electrical stimulation of the brain. Seizures are often not as severe as they seem. Pathological conditions that can cause a seizure include epilepsy, heat stroke, poisoning or drug reactions, hypoglycemia, high fever, brain injury, tumor or stroke, and electric shock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seizures<\/strong> can be convulsive and nonconvulsive, depending on the brain area affected by the dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Convulsive sei<\/strong> zures are those through which the person goes into convulsions that last 2 to 5 minutes, with muscle spasms and loss of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nonconvulsive sei<\/strong>zures, on the other hand, may manifest through fixation of gaze that lasts only a few seconds, involuntary arm movement, or a period of automatic movement.<\/p>\n<h3>What to do?<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>It is necessary to place the patient&#8217;s head on a soft surface.<\/li>\n<li>Loosen tight clothing around the neck and do not put anything between the victim&#8217;s teeth during the attack.<\/li>\n<li>Turn the victim on his or her side.<\/li>\n<li>The moment the seizure ends, offer help and avoid embarrassing the patient.<\/li>\n<li>It is necessary to take the patient to the hospital if the seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes, if the person is a nonepileptic, if recovery is slow, or if the person is pregnant.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediserve.it\/\">Mediserve<\/a>&#8216;s Pocket Guide to First Aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seizure is the result of a sudden electrical stimulation of the brain. Seizures are often not as severe as &#8230; <a title=\"Convulsive seizures: what to do?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/general-medicine\/convulsive-seizures-what-to-do\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Convulsive seizures: what to do?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8782,"featured_media":21817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[1741],"tags":[2657,2213],"corpo":[1771],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-39246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-medicine","tag-seizure","tag-seizures","corpo-nervous-system","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41513,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39246\/revisions\/41513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39246"},{"taxonomy":"corpo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo?post=39246"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=39246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}