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What is the best treatment for a child having seizures?
Seizures are basically uncontrollable. A doctor may put her on epilepsy medicine or depressants to try and lighten the seuzure. All you can do is keep an eye on her.
What is the difference between epilepsy and seizures?
Epilepsy is the name of the illness. Someone who has epilepsy gets seizures. Epilepsy is the tendency to get seizures. Someone who gets regular seizures can be diagnosed as having Epilepsy.
Does epilepsy causes seizures?
Epilepsy is defined as the tendency of having recurring seizures. Seizures don't "turn into" epilepsy. Epilepsy is a broad ranging term that covers a range of things, but generally relating to the fact that someone has recurring seizures. If someone is having recurring seizures, then they should got to see a doctor and try to find out what is the cause of them, and get a formal diagnosis of their problem.
What are chronic recurring seizures called?
Epilepsy.
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.
Types of Epilepsy Seizure?
There is temporal lobe epilepsy (which is the most common), frontal lobe epilepsy, parietal lobe epilepsy, and occipital lobe epilepsy. however, seizures are catagorized into two catagories: focal seizures and generalized seizures.
How does stress effect epilepsy?
Stress itself is not epilepsy, but it can be a cause of seizures for people who are prone to having seizures.
What is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent episodes of seizures of varying severities?
Epilepsy is a disorder affecting the central nervous system. It is characterized by recurrent seizures.
What is the main symptom of epilepsy?
seizures
What causes the seizures of epilepsy?
The seizures of epilepsy are due to unregulated spreading of electrical activity from one part of the brain to other parts.
Which gender gets epilepsy faster?
Epilepsy has many causes and there are many reasons why people get seizures. Gender does not particularly have any influence on who gets epilepsy, when they have seizures, what age they may start to have seizures or how fast a seizure happens.
Which medical condition is characterized by grand mal and petit mal?
Epilepsy is the medical condition characterized by both grand mal seizures (generalized tonic-clonic seizures) and petit mal seizures (absence seizures). Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes abnormal brain activity leading to seizures. Treatment typically involves medications to help control and manage the seizures.
