| SYMPTOMS
- Staring straight ahead and lapsing into complete immobility for a few seconds characterize a petit mal seizure.
- Loss of consciousness, rhythmic jerking motions and incontinence are among the signs of a grand mal seizure, which may last up to 30 minutes.
- Repetitive lip smacking, aimless fiddling movements, and a sense of detachment from surroundings may indicate a temporal lobe seizure.
- Rhythmic twitching of a hand, a foot, or the face, often followed by a period of weakness or paralysis, indicates a Jacksonian seizure.
- Convulsions in an already ill child three months to three years old, resulting from a sudden climb in fever, indicate a febrile seizure.
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