Question

Sudden muscle spasms and vomiting white foam for ten minutes, unconscious, with an unknown cause of onset in 1979.

Answer

Case Analysis: Epilepsy (commonly known as “sheep epilepsy”) has an incidence rate of 0.5% in our country and is very common in clinical practice. Its main clinical manifestations are: sudden onset of collapse, loss of consciousness, whole-body convulsions, vomiting white foam, eyes rolling upwards, and each attack lasting 1-3 minutes. The harm of epilepsy to humans mainly includes the following points: (1) Brain function damage: Each seizure causes damage to brain cells, and long-term repeated seizures can lead to a decrease in intelligence for patients, eventually resulting in the gradual loss of work and even life abilities. (2) Accidental deaths: Due to the fact that epilepsy can suddenly collapse without self-control at any time, place, or environment, it is easy to suffer injuries from falls, burns, drowning, or traffic accidents. (3) Psychological trauma: Since epilepsy often occurs and affects patients’ employment, marriage, and family life, patients with epilepsy tend to be more depressed and their mental and physical health is greatly affected. Guidance Suggestions: At present, the treatment methods for epilepsy in Western medicine include the following: First, X-knife and gamma knife treatment for epilepsy. Due to the inability to find the focus of discharge epilepsy, the effect is not ideal. Second, surgical treatment. The key to surgical treatment is to find the focus of epilepsy. However, at present, head CT, MRI, and EEG examinations are all difficult to detect the focus of epilepsy, so the difficulty in accurately locating epilepsy during surgery is great, which affects the effect of surgery.