What to Do if You Have a Seizure

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What to do when someone has a seizure

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On this page, find out what to do if you see someone having a tonic-clonic or focal seizure. Nosotros explain how you can help, and when y'all should telephone call for an ambulance.

Tonic-clonic (convulsive) seizures

Tonic-clonic seizures are the type of seizure virtually people recognise. They used to exist called thousand mal seizures. Someone having a tonic-clonic seizure goes stiff, loses consciousness, falls to the floor and begins to jerk or convulse. They may go bluish around the mouth due to irregular breathing. Sometimes they may lose control of their float or bowels, and bite their natural language or the inside of their oral fissure.

Here'due south how to help if you run into someone having a tonic-clonic seizure.

Practise:

• Protect them from injury (remove harmful objects from nearby)
• Cushion their head
• Look for an epilepsy identity carte du jour or identity jewellery – it may give you information near their seizures and what to do
• Time how long the seizure lasts
• Aid breathing by gently placing them in the recovery position once the jerking has stopped (come across movie)
• Stay with the them until they are fully recovered
• Be calmly reassuring

Don't:

• Don't restrain their movements
• Don't put anything in their mouth
• Don't try to motion them unless they are in danger
• Don't give them anything to eat or drink until they are fully recovered
• Don't attempt to bring them round

Phone call for an ambulance if whatsoever of these things utilize:

• You know information technology is their first seizure
• The seizure lasts for more than 5 minutes
• They take 1 tonic-clonic seizure after some other without regaining consciousness betwixt seizures
• They are seriously injured during the seizure
• They have trouble animate after the seizure has stopped

Focal seizures

You may also hear this type of seizure called a partial seizure. Someone having a focal seizure may not be aware of their environs or what they are doing. They may have unusual movements and behaviour such as plucking at their clothes, smacking their lips, swallowing repeatedly or wandering around.

Here'south how to aid if you run into someone having a focal seizure.

Practice:

• Guide them away from danger (such every bit roads or open up water)
• Stay with them until recovery is consummate
• Be calmly reassuring
• Explain anything that they may have missed

Don't:

• Don't restrain them
• Don't act in a manner that could frighten them, such as making abrupt movements or shouting at them
• Don't assume they are aware of what is happening, or what has happened
• Don't requite them anything to swallow or drinkable until they are fully recovered
• Don't effort to bring them round

Phone call for an ambulance if any of these things utilise:

• You know information technology is their first seizure
• The seizure lasts for more than 5 minutes
• They have one seizure subsequently another without regaining awareness betwixt seizures
• They are seriously injured during the seizure

Seizures in a wheelchair

If a person with epilepsy uses a wheelchair or has mobility problems, their GP or epilepsy specialist should give them a intendance plan. This should include advice on how to help the person if they have a seizure.

Here is some full general communication virtually how to help someone who is having a seizure in a wheelchair.

Do:

• Put the brakes on, to stop the chair from moving
• Let them remain seated in the chair during the seizure (unless they have a intendance plan which says to move them). Moving them could possibly lead to injuries for both you lot and them
• If they have a seatbelt or harness on, leave information technology fastened
• If they don't take a seatbelt or harness, support them gently, so they don't fall out of the chair
• Absorber their caput and back up it gently. A head residual, cushion or rolled upwardly coat tin be helpful
• Time how long the seizure lasts

The person's intendance plan should give advice on what to do after the seizure has finished. For example, it should say if it is condom to move them from the wheelchair to put them in the recovery position.

Don't:

• Don't restrain their movements
• Don't put anything in their mouth
• Don't give them anything to eat or drink until they are fully recovered
• Don't attempt to bring them round

Call for an ambulance if any of these things apply:

• You know it is their first seizure
• The seizure lasts for more than 5 minutes
• They have i seizure after another without regaining consiousness betwixt seizures
• They are seriously injured during the seizure

Seizures in the water

Visit our sports and leisure page to discover out what to do if someone has a seizure while pond.

Find out more about seizures

Accept our short online learning module to learn more about different types of seizure and what to do when someone has one.

Order commencement aid information from the Epilepsy Action shop.

First aid data in other languages

Beth i'w wneud pan fydd rhywun yn profi trawiad (Welsh)

Środek pierwszej pomocy w przypadku napadów drgawkowych (Polish)

  مرض کے دورہ کے لیے ابتدائی طبی امداد (Urdu)

Premiers secours pour des crises d'épilepsie (French)

Erste Hilfe bei Krampfanfällen (German)

Primeros auxilios para convulsiones (Spanish)

Epilepsy Action would similar to give thanks Dr Amanda Freeman, consultant paediatrician and Liz Nelson, Roald Dahl paediatric epilepsy specialist nurse, at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, for their contribution to this data.

Amanda Freeman and Liz Nelson have no conflict of interest to declare.

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Source: https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/firstaid/what-to-do

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