Recently, Mr. Liu from Luo Yuan suddenly woke up in his sleep, his limbs twitched violently after his body stiffened, and he was finally diagnosed with a lumbar vertebra fracture. The doctor examined it and found that it was not a seizure, but a long-term low calcium.
Fracture of the lumbar vertebrae after severe convulsions.
Mr. Liu, 27, suddenly had convulsions all over his body while sleeping, and his family thought he was having a seizure and rushed him to the hospital. When the doctor checked, he found that his back pain was due to a lumbar fracture.
Based on the characteristics of Mr. Liu's symptoms, the doctors at the epilepsy center quickly ruled out the possibility of epilepsy, and the results of the blood tests gave the doctors a final judgment.
It turned out that Mr. Liu's secondary hypoparathyroidism caused low calcium. The calcium content in his blood is only 1 3 of a normal person, and the low bone density eventually leads to severe osteoporosis, and any external force may cause fractures, and his convulsions are also related to calcium deficiency.
Hypoparathyroid hormone deficiency may cause hypocalcemia.
Doctors say that parathyroid hormone is an important hormone that regulates the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus in the body's blood. Long-term hypocalcemia caused by parathyroid hormone insufficiency can also cause increased nerve excitability, even convulsions, and even cataract and basal ganglia calcification.
The doctor pointed out that the pathogenesis of epilepsy and convulsive seizures is completely different, epilepsy is caused by abnormal firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex, which will cause patients to lose consciousness, muscle convulsions, rigidity and other related clinical manifestations, while convulsive seizures are mainly caused by the spontaneous increase in muscle excitability, and the difference should be noted.
The doctor reminded that although the symptoms of severe convulsions are diverse, the destructive power to the body should not be underestimated, and delayed treatment will have a life-threatening risk, so you should be vigilant.
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