If someone has regular seizures, then they have epilepsy. What causes their seizures can be many different things, as it is different for different people. What form their seizures take will also be different for different people.
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Yes. People with seizure disorders often state they see or feel an "aura." Seizure aura can be similar to migraine aura, or they can vary widely - having to do more with feeling a certain feeling like fear or deja vu. There is a specific type of migraine variant called Migralepsy, during which patients with experience both migraine and seizures. For some people, the migraine is almost a warning sign of impending seizure.
Medications, such as Trileptal, which are designed to treat seizures, are also successfully used to treat depression and bipolar disorder.
anticonvulsants , indicated for the treatment of absence seizures (sometimes called petit mal seizures) associated with epilepsy and other seizure disorders.
People that have MS are prone to having seizures. In fact, they between 3-6 times more likely to develop reoccurring epileptic seizures then a healthy human being.
by taking your pills and anything that will control it
Drug therapy is used for those who have seizures associated with CP. Anticonvulsant medications are usually very effective in preventing seizures associated with CP. Drugs are also used to control spasticity in some cases.
If the medicine was prescribed to reduce the occurrence of seizures then failing to take the medicine means that a seizure is more likely to occur than if you took the medicine.
Succinamides are a sub-class of anticonvulsants , indicated for the treatment of seizures associated with epilepsy.
Tiagabine decreases abnormal electrical activity within the brain that may trigger seizures. Although tiagabine controls some types of seizures associated with epilepsy, especially partial seizures, there is no known cure for the disorder.
The petit mal or absence seizures often are. However, people having any kind of seizure can experience an aura. Partial Seizures are most often associated with auras. These all three of these are similar types of seizure.
Yes Hamsters can and if you think yours has then get it to a vet as they can have seizures.