For each parent, his child is the most valuable creature on earth, it must be protected from the hardships that surround it. But, to our great regret, we can not save our children from possible failures in their organisms. Therefore, any illness of the child leads parents into despair and horror. We blame ourselves for what happened, we try to help the child to overcome the indisposition. An uncontrolled condition in the child's body can be convulsions.
Convulsions in the baby
Cramps are when the muscles begin to uncontrollably contract. The most common cause at this age is when a high temperature, exceeding 39 degrees, appears. Often other causes are increased intracranial pressure, an infectious disease and other changes in the overall health of the child. Often cramps in infants are due to the fact that the central nervous system is not developed.
Symptoms of seizures in children
At the moment of cramps in the child, legs and arms are convulsively stretched forward, the head is thrown. The child loses consciousness, tightly clenches his teeth, rolls his eyes. There are cases when foam appears on the child's lips. The lips of the child become blue during convulsions. This is due to the fact that at this moment the child lacks oxygen. Seizures can affect individual muscle groups, and the muscles of the entire body. This lasts a few seconds, and in some cases up to 10 minutes or more.
What can help the child at this moment?
Every mother is worried about this issue, we do not always know how to provide first aid in such emergency situations. If a child has cramps, you need to release the baby from tight clothes. It is very important to put the baby on its side and put its head on its side. Find the handkerchief, fold it and insert it between the baby's teeth. So he can not bite his tongue. At this point, it is very important that the room had a lot of fresh air, immediately after the incident, open the window. As soon as the attack is over, urgently call for an ambulance. During cramps, do not leave your child for a second, it can lead to tragedy.
Very often, one attack is accompanied by another seizure attack. You need to be prepared for the fact that the seizure may recur. During the attack, you need to pay attention to how long the first attack lasted, after what time the second attack began. With the help of this information the doctor will be able to understand what happened. He will need such information that the baby was eating, which was the temperature of the body before the onset of seizures, whether he took pills. It is important to tell the doctor which diseases your child was ill with before the seizures occurred.
First of all, cramping treatment provides for what reason they originated. The child is subjected to a series of examinations, their results will help the doctor correctly treat this disease. Without a doubt, they treat the cause of seizures, because of which they arose.
It should pay attention to the fact that most often you can avoid an attack of seizures. Mom must knock down the body temperature of the baby, before it exceeds 39 degrees. Take care of your children and yourself!