What happens when someone had a seizure, Iv'e never seen a person have one.?

Question

Do they start shaking & foaming at the mouth & stuff or what? Does it hurt them?

Answer 1

Seizures are temporary abnormal electro-physiologic phenomena of the brain, resulting in abnormal synchronization of electrical neuronal activity. They can manifest as an alteration in mental state, tonic or clonic movements, convulsions, and various other psychic symptoms (such as déja vu or jamais vu). They are due to temporary abnormal electrical activity of a group of brain cells. The medical syndrome of recurrent, unprovoked seizures is termed epilepsy, but some seizures may occur in people who do not have epilepsy.
The treatment of epilepsy is a subspecialty of neurology; the study of seizures is part of neuroscience.

Seizures can cause involuntary changes in body movement or function, sensation, awareness, or behavior. A seizure can last from a few seconds to status epilepticus, a continuous seizure that will not stop without intervention. Seizure is often associated with a sudden and involuntary contraction of a group of muscles. However, a seizure can also be as subtle as marching numbness of a part of body, a brief loss of memory, sparkling or flashes, sensing an unpleasant odor, a strange epigastric sensation or a sensation of fear. Therefore seizures are typically classified as motor, sensory, autonomic, emotional or cognitive.
In some cases, the full onset of a seizure event is preceded by some of the sensations described above. These sensations can serve as a warning to the sufferer that a full tonic-clonic seizure is about to occur. These "warning sensations" are cumulatively called an aura[1].
Symptoms experienced by a person during a seizure depend on where in the brain the disturbance in electrical activity occurs. A person having a tonic-clonic seizure may cry out, lose consciousness and fall to the ground, and convulse, often violently. A person having a complex partial seizure may appear confused or dazed and will not be able to respond to questions or direction. Some people have seizures that are not noticeable to others. Sometimes, the only clue that a person is having an absence seizure is rapid blinking or a few seconds of staring into space.
It is commonly thought among healthcare providers that many seizures, especially in children, are preceded by tachycardia that frequently persists throughout the seizure. This early increase in heart rate may supplement an aura as a physiological warning sign of an iminent seizure.
Some seizure types may be followed by weakness on one side of the body that resolves over hours or sometimes days; this phenomenon is termed Todd's paresis.

Answer 2

Seizures come in a very wide variety of forms, from the nearly unnoticable to the blatantly obvious. If you have ever felt a twitching in some muscle or another for a brief time (it may have even stopped when you moved that muscle or thought about it), you have expriences the most common and harmless type of seizure.
Some seizures can harm the person, i am not sure about hurt as in pain though, no one I have known has ever expressed pain from their seizures directly. Some have had pain from falling to the ground or bumping into things during a seizure.
Some people i know can 'feel' a seizure before it starts, they have a aura sensation that tells them that a seizure is on it's way. this may vary from a feeling of dread, to giggling, to just a sense, to a twitch that spreads.
Seizures all seem to start in the brain and can affect any portion of a person's body or awareness.
Some people may just stare blankly for a moment or two then be back 'in reality'.
Others may drop to the floor, convulse, or even stop normal respirations.
Some seizurues can cause damage to the brain, usually, if there is damage, it is progressive damage and only noticable after a large number of seizures.
Some seizures can manifest themselves as what appears to be behavior (striking out, yelling out, etc).
Some seizures seem to have environmental antecedants: ie: the flicker of flourescent light bulbs or specific sounds or smells.
Some seizures seem to have behavioral/internal antecedants: ie: agitation or frustration at someone/something.

Please remember that a person with seizures has no more control over them than they have over skin color or eye color. Medication can help to varying degrees (from near complete absence of seizures to simply reducing the frequency, duration, or intensity). A person who has seizures does not need an audience and should not be feared. They do often need someone who will make sure they don't get injured and people who will accept them as they are.
Here are a couple of links to sites w/good information about seizures:
http://www.epilepsy.com/101/ep101_symptom.html
http://www.webmd.com/hw/epilepsy/hw82024.asp

Answer 3

Seizures occur when the brain has too amny electrodes going through it at once. It is caused by many things such as stress and it can be genetic. The brain can stop a seizure saying that I guess when the blood sugar level gets to where it supposed to be. While having a seizure, the best you can do is support the head and lie the person on their side so they don't choke on their own saliva.

Answer 4

There are different types of seizures some can be silent in which the person has a blank stare and can not be snapped out of it. Other can be more violent with shaking and facial twitches. All seizures are different

Answer 5

i dont know from personal experence but my friend was just tellin me about one her grandfather had.. and he started shaking and it seemed to here that his toung was swollen giving the impression that a person is swolling there toung.

Answer 6

Eyes roll back. Try to swallow tongue. Body tenses up and spazzes. Protect their head so they don't hurt themself.