What is neonatal convulsion

Convulsion, commonly known as \"fan\", are common symptoms in newborns, premature infants are more often. Most of them are a manifestation of severe diseases. Once in Neonatal seizures, should be immediately taken to the hospital for further examination and treatment. Larger older children when a convulsion occurs the action, it is easy to identify; and very different newborn, attack duration shorter, smaller, and because many newborns are tight, so if he does not look hard to spot action of neonatal ventilation.

Neonatal convulsion comes in many forms, can be the face muscles twitch, characterized by eyes squint, small eyelid and facial muscles twitch, mouths were or similar sucking action, or a limb, one side of a limb or bilateral limb TIC. In short forms varied, sometimes of neonates with seizures of particularly local small and normal operation is not easy to distinguish between.

Then how to distinguish between normal activity and the seizure of the newborn? Neonatal seizures other than limb or abnormal muscle movements, often accompanied by other changes, observe the following differences:

1, posture changes: normal newborn limbs often is buckling State, but not excessively curved flexor, wrist, knee, elbow and ankle joint angles of usually not less than 90 degrees, open the package was galloping by limbs often irregular. Such as extremity joints angle less than 90 degrees, hypermyotonia description, if the limb soft, straight, body into a glyph stating low muscle tension.

2, complexion changed: neonatal when serious convulsions, often accompanied by short-time face white or cyanotic, sometimes accompanied by foam at the mouth.

3, eye changes: most of neonatal convulsion accompanied by loss of consciousness for a short time, characterized by absence, stare or strabismus, etc.

In short in Neonatal seizures except when a limb or muscle twitch, a total will be accompanied by a change in consciousness, complexion and muscular tension, and so on, careful observation is not difficult to identify.