The child suddenly got cramps and lost consciousness. What should parents do?
Convulsion is the most common pediatric emergency. When children attack, they will show limb convulsions and coma, which makes parents very scared. Convulsion is very common in children, and the causes of convulsion are various. However, convulsion does not mean that children have epilepsy, nor does it mean that the risk of epilepsy in the future is higher. Convulsions and epilepsy are not the same thing. In medicine, epilepsy does not refer to a specific disease, but mainly refers to seizures that occur repeatedly for no reason within a period of time. The causes that may cause convulsions in children or adolescents include high fever, concussion and hypoglycemia. Such convulsions do not recur and therefore cannot be counted as epilepsy. Read More …