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Form of epilepsy in which there is a loss of awareness without a seizure?
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An absence seizure or a petit mal.
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Can flashing lights make you have seizures?
There is a form of epilepsy known as photosensitive epilepsy. People who have that form can have a seizure as a result of flashing lights. They are a very small percentage of the people who have epilepsy. It is about 3% to 5%. For the vast majority of people who have epilepsy, flashing lights have no effect on them at all.
Can epilepsy cause a brain tumour?
A brain tumour is a form of cancer. Epilepsy is not a cancer. A tumour can actually cause a seizure. A seizure could be one symptom of a tumour. However, this is a cause only in a very small amount of people who have epilepsy.
What does the purple ribbon and a butterfly stand for?
Its epilepsy awareness and specifically for Dravets Syndrome, a terminal form of Epilepsy that effects children who have a mutation on their second gene.
What does having a seizure experience before their episode?
Often the first stage of having a seizure is an aura. An aura can take various forms, but it is usually a strange feeling and a warning to the person that a seizure is about to happen. However, sometimes the aura is all that happens and a seizure doesn't follow.
What is an absence?
An absence seizure is a brief period of unconsciousness (usually 5-10 seconds) when a person appears to be daydreaming or "spacing out." They do not fall over the are just unconscious and completely unaware of what is going on around them for that amount of time. After the seizure, they can feel disoriented so just comfort them and tell them what they missed.
How do you know you're having a seizure?
Epilepsy is not considered until you have had more than one seizure. In order to be diagnosed with epilepsy, a neurologist will have an EEG done. This reads the electrical activity in your brain. From there, the doctor can determine weather or not you are epileptic.
What happens when someone with epilepsy sees flashing lights?
For most people with epilepsy, nothing will happen. A common misconception is that anyone that has epilepsy will have their seizures triggered when they see flashing lights. However, that is only for people with a form of epilepsy known as photosensitive epilepsy. That is only about 3% to 5% of people who have epilepsy. For the others, it has no effect whatsoever. Their seizures would be triggered by other factors. For those that do have photosensitive epilepsy then seeing flashing lights could start a seizure.
What is the probability of getting Epilepsy?
Someone who has Epilepsy has it all the time. What you really mean is how often do they have seizures. There is no single answer for that, as different people have them at different times. Some people could go years without having a seizure. Others might only go a few hours without having one. It depends on the type of epilepsy, the severity of the epilepsy and the triggers for individual people. A trigger is something that may cause a person to have a seizure. If they avoid their personal triggers, then they could go without seizures for a long time. One form of epilepsy, which only affects about 3% to 5% of people with epilepsy is photosensitive epilepsy. This is the form when people have their seizures triggered by light patterns. Most people associate this with flashing lights, but there can be other causes. If someone has photosensitive epilepsy and regularly expose themselves to situations where they encounter flashing lights, then they will have more seizures. If they keep away from those situations, then they could go without them for a very long time. Other people have no problems with flashing lights, but will get seizures due to things like stress. If they avoid stressful situations, then they won't have seizures very often. So someone will have epilepsy all the time, but will only have seizures occasionally, if they look after themselves and avoid their triggers as much as possible. Edit: *** Depends on their triggers like me for example i have seizures and one of my triggers is stress that's hard to avoid but I meditate, listen to music, hang with friends, shop, get nails done, fix my hair, go out on a date, Girls Night Only, and text. These are what I do other people could do something else.***
Which J form of epilepsy is marked by localized spasms?
Jacksonian epilepsy
What can cause complex partial seizures?
Complex partial seizures have no known cause other than coming from a form of epilepsy. These seizures are often preceded by a seizure aura, and usually resort in an altered state of conciousness.
What is the effect of epilepsy?
The daily life of a person with epilepsy can be very frustrating. Many, if not most, people have a very limited understanding of the disorder. In many cases, people with epilepsy are avoided, or treated as if they are disabled. Epilepsy is not a disability. It is not a mental illness. It is a neurological disorder that disrupts normal brain activity for anywhere from a few seconds up to a minute or so. It is a temporary physical event that causes various symptoms, depending on how much of the brain is affected by the seizure. Because of a widespread misunderstanding of epilepsy, it is extremely hard for people with epilepsy to get good jobs, even though there are many famous, high achievers--including Supreme Court judges, professional football players, Congressmen, actors...--who have epilepsy. For more information, please go to www.epilepsyfoundation.org
What are the symtoms of epilepsy?
Epilepsy is diagnosed by a person having seizures. For some people the seizures are frequent and strong. Someone having a milder form will not get seizures very often. The seizures they get will be very mild, maybe manifesting themselves as short periods of loss of conciousness, or even just feeling a little "strange" (hard to really describe this as it is different for different people) for a moment and then feeling fine. They may feel like a seizure is coming on, but it never actually happens. Most seizures are preceded by something as a person feels it coming on. This is normally called an aura, which is different for different people, the strange feeling I mentioned. It could be a physical sensation. The seizure will then follow. Someone with a mild form may get an aura, but not have a full seizure at all. some of the other side symptoms are that the person see double of evrything and sometime walks like they are drunk
