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Yin Xu, a 22-year-old medical student from Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu province, has invented a gadget to enable his grandmother detect epilepsy seizures. There is possibility of the device undergoing trial production, thepaper.cn reported on August 14.

The device includes a silica gel tooth socket that does not only avoid tongue bite due to seizure, but also sends an alarm signal to others via a built-in circuit, Yin, a junior student majoring in clinical medicine in Nanjing Medical University, told thepaper.cn.

Yin's grandmother experiences seizures every month, often at midnight. Having found no real-time alarm by epilepsy developers, Yin decided to invent one before proceeding on internship.

After two months' trial, the device was successfully designed in June by Yin and his team members, spending less than 500 yuan. They will further improve it by connecting to an APP to record every seizure and its period, and then provide guidance for medical treatment.

Already, some equipment manufacturers have expressed interest in carrying out trial production of the device. Yin hopes the invention can help more epilepsy patients like his grandmother.