You can get it by trauma to the head or you can be born with it, I haven't heard of any other way to get it ;-)
Anesthesia for amniocentesis, patient has petit mal epilepsy
Anesthesia for amniocentesis, patient has petit mal epilepsy
Epilepsy, or seizure.
Grand mal epilepsy is a major seizure and petit mal epilepsy is a minor seizure. A grand mal epilepsy seizure is a seizure that causes a person to have a loss of consciousness, loss of muscle coordination and can cause loss of bowel and bladder. Petit mal epilepsy seizures may cause uncontrollable twitching or movement in a smaller part of the body. Both petit mal epilepsy and grand mal epilepsy seizures are caused by too much activity in the brain.
An absence seizure or a 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.
anticonvulsants , indicated for the treatment of absence seizures (sometimes called petit mal seizures) associated with epilepsy and other seizure disorders.
Grand mal is a French term meaning big illness, in contrast to another type of seizure, known as petit mal. A grand mal is a type of epilepsy characterized by seizures. The body first becomes rigid, and then there is uncontrolled jerking.
So far as we know at this stage, there is no relationshipbetween absence seizures Previously known Petit Mal Seizures as found with epilepsy, and RA
It is very rare for someone to die directly from a petit mal seizure. Petit mal seizures are typically brief and do not result in physical harm or complications that could lead to death. However, if a petit mal seizure occurs in a dangerous situation, such as while swimming or driving, there is a risk of harm or death from accidents related to the 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.
epilepsy.