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Does lack of glucose in the brain trigger epilepsy?
It does not trigger epilepsy, but a low blood glucose does cause seizures. The seizures stop once the blood sugar is returned to normal.
What are the major signs of epilepsy?
The major sign of epilepsy is seizures. When you have had more than one seizure, neurologists will do tests (MRI and EEG) to locate the trigger point of the seizure. Depending on the type of seizure you have, they will then start you on a medication. If medication fails to control the seizures, there are other alternatives. These include the ketogenic diet, VNS, and surgery.
Can a hockey game after the intro show trigger an epileptic seizure and if so what are the possible triggers ie goal lights or moving spot lights?
Spotlights can trigger seizures in people who have photosensitive epilepsy, but that is only 3% to 5% of all people who have epilepsy. So for the vast majority of people with epilepsy, it is not a problem.
If you suffer with epilepsy will doing aerobics trigger a seizure?
Different people who have Epilepsy have different triggers for their seizures. This is definitely an issue that you need to take up with your neurologist. It would not be ethical to attempt to answer it under these conditions.
Is a generalized seizure characterized by a loss of consciousness?
epilepsy
Does technology cause a seizure?
There are many causes of seizures. Flashing lights or strobe lights can trigger seizures in people who have what is known as photosensitive epilepsy, but that is only about 3% of people who have epilepsy. Lights are technology, so for those people, then it can, but for most people with epilepsy, it is not a risk.
What is a good sentence for epilepsy?
My friend has epilepsy, she had a seizure today at the carnival. my sister-in-law has epilepsy and she had a seizure while she was at the mall shopping my sister-in-law were out taking a walk along the beach her in her binki when she fell down and started to have a seizure on the beach
What is the medical term meaning epilepsy?
Epilepsy is itself a medical term. Epilepsy has many forms, so there are many individual types of epilepsy. Epilepsy is defined as the tendency to have recurring seizures. A seizure is not epilpesy. It is a symptom of epilepsy.
What causes an Epileptic seizure?
Epilepsy is not a specific illness, but more a general term for people who tend to have seizures. A seizure is as a result of an increased amount of electrical activity in the brain. There are different forms of epilepsy and different people have different triggers for their seizures. Something that may trigger epilepsy in one person might have no affect on another person. You often hear that flashing lights, strobe lights etc. cause epileptic seizures. That only has the potential to trigger a seizure with people who have what is called photosensitive epilepsy. Other people who have epilepsy have abslolutely no porblems with flashing lights. For other people it could be tiredness or stress for example. Some may have epilepsy after receiving a head injury, like if they had been in a car accident. There are many other reasons. For some it isn't even certain what causes their seizures.
What are the immediate complication of epilepsy?
The immediate complication of epilepsy is simply the risk of getting a seizure :-)
Do storms trigger epilepsy?
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Is having a seizure the same as having epilepsy?
Epilepsy is the tendency to have recurring seizures. If someone has one seizure and then never has one again, which can happen, they would not be said to have epilepsy. So it is people that keep having seizures that would be said to have epilepsy.
