What does twitch mean

There are many common problems in life, and different problems require different ways to solve. If you want to solve the problems well, you need to have a good understanding of the problems, so that you will know how to solve them best and what to do to help yourself without harming your health. So what does convulsion mean? Sometimes we see some people convulsing.

Convulsion is a disease. This kind of disease is very harmful to human health. After the disease occurs, it also needs timely treatment, which is very helpful for the improvement of the disease. So what does convulsion mean?

Twitch means:

Convulsions are manifestations of involuntary movements and pathological phenomena of neuromuscular diseases, manifested as involuntary contractions of skeletal muscles. The following are common clinically: convulsions, tonic spasms, myoclonus, tremors, choreiform movements, athetosis, torsion spasms, fasciculations, and habitual tics. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main causes and pathogenesis of convulsions include internal accumulation of heat and toxicity, disturbance of wind-yang, penetration of wind-toxicity into the collaterals, and deficiency of yin and blood. It is commonly seen in brain diseases, infectious diseases, poisoning, intracranial injuries, syncope, eclampsia, postpartum spasm, infantile convulsions, tetanus, rabies and other diseases. When the clinical diagnosis of a disease characterized by convulsions is still uncertain, convulsions to be investigated can be used as a preliminary diagnosis and dialectical treatment can be carried out.

Clinical manifestations

1. Generalized tonic convulsion: The muscles of the whole body are rigid and twitching in waves, showing opisthotonos (head tilted back, whole body bent backward in a bow shape), eyes rolled up or staring, and the patient is unconscious.

2. Localized convulsions: only local muscles twitch, such as twitching of only one side of the limbs, or twitching of facial muscles, or twitching of fingers and toes, or eye movements, nystagmus, blinking, staring, etc. Most are unconscious. The above convulsions can last for a few seconds or several minutes, and in severe cases can last for several minutes or recur repeatedly. Convulsions lasting more than 30 minutes are called persistent state convulsions.

3. Febrile convulsions: mainly seen in children between 6 months and 4 years old who have convulsions when they have high fever. High fever convulsions are short-lived, and consciousness recovers quickly after the convulsion. They often occur in the early stages of a fever. During a fever, there is often only one convulsion. Brain diseases and other serious illnesses can be ruled out, and an EEG will be normal one week after the fever subsides.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of the meaning of convulsions, and we also have a good understanding of its manifestations. However, when treating convulsion diseases, it takes a long time. This type of disease is also relatively harmful to human health, and this is also something that needs to be paid attention to.