Does anyone have any information on the value of tongue biting to differentiate epileptic seizures from syncopal attack in children?

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Soumya Roy

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This paper quotes

a lateral tongue bite greatly increases the chance that the patient had an epileptic seizure, whereas a biting at the tip of the tongue is more indicative of a syncopal episode.

Source http://www.seizure-journal.com/article/S1059-1311(13)00154-4/pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22770819

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7487261

tongue biting was not uncommon among children and adolescents with seizures, but very rarely occurred in syncope

Source http://www.seizure-journal.com/article/S1059-1311(13)00005-8/pdf

Francis Akor

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