Question
A two-and-a-half-year-old child has hand spasms around 3 or 4 in the morning, with both hands clenching tightly and no other symptoms. Is this a disease?
Answer
Based on the symptoms you described, this could be an epilepsy seizure. Epileptic symptoms include dizziness and stomach discomfort. Patients may suddenly lose consciousness, fall to the ground, tilt their head back, and experience rhythmic twitching of limbs, often biting their tongue, foaming at the mouth, and possibly experiencing incontinence. These episodes generally last between 1 to 3 minutes. Patients may have varying degrees of consciousness loss, usually complete loss of consciousness, with occasional mild impairment where they can hear questions but cannot respond.