Parents must be responsive to the development of her baby, both the physical changes, especially when their baby is sick. Various kinds of diseases currently suffered by vulnerable children. Parents should continue to explore the information and insights about the development of child health. Some diseases are present even without symptoms.One of them is a strain on the child. Seizures occur because of loss of excess electrical charge at the same time from a group of nerve cells in brain. The visible symptoms of irregular movement, repeated with or without disturbance of consciousness. These symptoms occur depending on the affected brain.
Seizures caused by several risk factors, such as birth injury, oxygen deprivation at birth, baby yellow, and infections during pregnancy (TORCH) especially in the first trimester is said to cause seizures. Yellow is called when there is a risk factor on the first day of birth. The baby will be normal if yellow occurs on the third day.
While entering the children, seizures usually occur because of a brain infection, head trauma due to falls, dehydration due to diarrhea and vomiting, febrile seizures, and epilepsy (epilepsy). The early symptoms of epileptic seizures are usually characterized by 2 times or more without the heat. Distance of the first and second seizures more than 24 hours. 70% of epileptic seizures easily overcome with the proper medication and regular (if there is no structural abnormalities of the brain). While 30% of epileptic seizures dulit treated with anti-epileptic drugs.
Required drug combinations of 2 to 3 drugs, but if the seizures difficult to control the operation of action into the next treatment alternatives. Own febrile seizures occur due to temperature rise abruptly out of the brain kerana disease.
When you find signs and symptoms mentioned above, parents should be vigilant. Seizures may result in lack of oxygen in brain, the lack of sugar on the brain, brain swelling, and high heat up to 40 ยบ C. High heat then this is known as febrile seizures, ie seizures which occur due to an increase in body temperature of a sudden because of the disease outside the brain. In clinical seizures can also lead to physical disability, mental disabilities, behavioral disorders, learning disorders, epilepsy until death.
So, what should parents do when kids seizures?. Here are the tips :
- Stay calm and not panic
- Make loose the clothing, especially around the neck
- If unconscious, position the child on her back with her head tilted
- Clean vomit or mucus in the mouth or nose
- Do not insert anything into the mouth, because it resulted in the jaw keruakan
- Measure the temperature, time of observation and record seizures and forms
- Stay with the patient during the seizure
- Give diazepam rectal, and should not be given if the seizure has stopped
- Bring to a doctor or hospital if the seizure lasted 5 minutes or more