How to Help Someone Having an Epileptic Seizure
- 1). Ease the person to the floor, if you see that she is about to have a seizure. She could get hurt if she falls.
- 2). Insert a handkerchief between her teeth if she knows she's going to have a seizure. It will help her avoid biting her tongue.
- 3). Loosen constrictive clothing (unless the seizure has come on and the person is jerking too much).
- 4). Protect the head with a pillow, or any soft object, if possible. During a grand mal seizure, the head has a tendency to strike the floor repeatedly.
- 5). Shoo away onlookers and close the door to provide privacy.
- 6). Move furniture out of the way.
- 7). Avoid trying to restrain the person having a seizure. You will never be strong enough to fight against the powerful seizing muscles, but you may get hurt.
- 8). Make sure not to jam anything between the seizing person's clenched teeth. If her jaw is clenched, you could break her teeth or injure her lips.
- 9). Turn her onto her side if you can, to prevent choking or aspiration of vomit that may occur during seizure.
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Reorient the person after she begins to regain consciousness following her seizure. Sometimes awareness is regained soon after a seizure, sometimes it can take several minutes or more.
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