to bite=mordere tongue=lingua blood=sangue to jerk=strattonare/muoversi a scatti/dare spinte to bend=piegarsi drowsy=assonnato The tonic/stiffening phase The clonic jerking phase All the muscles stiffen Arms and legs jerk rapidly and rhythmically: they bend and relax The person may cry/groan, lose consciousness The jerking slows and stops after a few minutes and fall down He/she may bite his/her tongue and blood may Consciousness returns slowly emerge from the mouth The person may turn blue in the face The person may be drowsy,confused,agitated or depressed Epilepsy (growing into old age pp.194-196) Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the nervous system. A convulsion is a disturbance of the electrical activity in the brain. Epilepsy can affect people differently. There are multiple kinds of epilepsy and the two types are partial or generalized. The first one occurs in a specific part of the brain and may affect part of the body; the second one occurs all over the brain and can affect the entire body. Symptoms: convulsions muscle spasms falling down loss of consciousness biting the tongue loss of bladder control stiffening of the body
to bite=mordere tongue=lingua blood=sangue to jerk=strattonare/muoversi a scatti/dare spinte to bend=piegarsi drowsy=assonnato The tonic/stiffening phase The clonic jerking phase All the muscles stiffen Arms and legs jerk rapidly and rhythmically: they bend and relax The person may cry/groan, lose consciousness and fall down The jerking slows and stops after a few minutes He/she may bite his/her tongue and blood may emerge from the mouth Consciousness returns slowly The person may turn blue in the face The person may be drowsy,confused,agitated or depressed Epilepsy (growing into old age pp.194-196) Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the nervous system. A convulsion is a disturbance of the electrical activity in the brain. Epilepsy can affect people differently. There are multiple kinds of epilepsy and the two types are partial or generalized. The first one occurs in a specific part of the brain and may affect part of the body; the second one occurs all over the brain and can affect the entire body. Symptoms: convulsions muscle spasms falling down loss of consciousness biting the tongue loss of bladder control stiffening of the body
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