Epilepsy

The question here was "CAN epilepsy cause brain damage?" The answer is an unequivocal, "YES, it can" Frequent and/or prolonged seizures can indeed cause brain damage. However, most people that have Epilepsy are properly diagnosed, treated and monitored, so medication can assist them to live normal lives and reduce this risk. Often someone who has Epilepsy has it as a result of damage to the brain, like a traumatic head injury in something like a car accident. Unfortunately, undiagnosed or untreated epilepsy -- or poor compliance with medications and treatments --- can trigger a seizure which could cause a car accident. For that reason, anyone who has had a seizure must surrender their driver's licence until it no longer presents as a hazard. There are specific guidelines available from the State or Provincial Departments of Transport in your area.

Epilepsy is not an infection or a virus or anything like that, so the immune system is not relevant to it. You cannot "catch" epilepsy from someone. So the immune system does not respond to epilepsy. There is nothing that it can do.

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.

No. Epilepsy has many forms and many causes. So for each person it is different. For that reason there is no one food that you could say should not be eaten by any person who has had an epileptic seizure.

No, not the seizure itself. However, people have died during a grand mal seizure due to severe head injuries which have occurred (e.g. when the head strikes the ground violently).

This is wrong, The seizure itself may cause your heart to stop, killing you. Jett Travolta died from the seizure itself, not from hitting his head, don't take my word for it, look it up.

Some can cause Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, or SUDEP

Actually Jett Travolta did hit his head during his seizure.

The type of epilepsy the person has is important here. Different people have different things that trigger their seizures. Blinking too much may not have any connection with their seizures. You need to know more about the kind of epilepsy the person has and if anything in particular is causing the frequent blinking, if that even is a genuine problem. Talk to your doctor about this on your next visit.

Family members will usually watch out for someone who has epilepsy. They will learn what to do as they get used to the person's seizures. As they do, it becomes less of a problem within the family. The severity of someone's epilepsy will be a factor. The milder someone's seizures are, the less of a problem it will be.

Epilepsy can considered a disability but it only effects some parts of the brain and for some people the effects are minimal, so it has little or no impact on their daily lives. For others it can cause major problems and so be very disabling for them.

However, epilepsy can alter in it's severity. And a person's lifestyle can effect this. For instance alcohol will ensure that any medication(s) taken for epilepsy have no effect. The alcohol combating the effect of the medication. Sleep is also necessary to the epileptic. In the long - term, a healthy lifestyle can serve to create a person who has controlled 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

The word intractable means hard to control. It can be used in relation to many things. Lots of things can be intractable. So intractable epilepsy is when someone's epilepsy is quite serious, difficult to control and as a result has a major impact on their lives. It is not a form of epilepsy, just a general description as to how serious a person's epilepsy has become. As it is a general term there is no specific point of measurement to say when someone has intractable epilepsy. The majority of people with epilepsy lead very normal lives. They only have seizures occasionally and most of the time they are fine and people that know them might not even know they have epilepsy. Only a very small amount of people have it to the extent that it could be said to be intractable.

Each case is different so there is no single answer to that question. There are many forms of seizure and many causes. A child would have to be assessed by a doctor to try and find the cause of their seizure.

the orgasm your having is making your body do things like that and if its just a regular question then the nerves

A properly qualified doctor would not misdiagnose in that manner. Medically they are very different conditions, though they can have some similar symptoms. This is why some people can confuse the two.

They can have seizures at any time a seizure threshold is passed. Things that typically increase the likelihood of an animal or person having a seizure include fatigue, stress, and flashing lights, but not the phase of the moon.

NOTE! This answer and all the other "naysayers" on this and other posts should stfu! My dog has had 6 seizures in the past 8 months EACH ONE WAS ON A FULL MOON! this morning I had no idea it was a full moon ... so yes typically for some reason unbeknownst to science and the experts MY DOG IS SEIZING ONLY DURING A FULL MOON! period end of story!

Dont listen to anyone that tells you theres no connection they just havnt found it yet.

It will depend on the type of job and how severe your epilepsy is. It would be a decision of who is hiring and their doctors as to whether you were fit for the job.

If you have drug resistant epilepsy then you should be evaluated for surgery. The testing takes a few weeks. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common type of epilepsy and surgery to correct it has the highest success rates. It will all depend on the area of the brain in which the seizures are originating from. Also the cause of your epilepsy plays a roll into whether or not you are a qualifying candidate. For example, if the cause of your seizures is from a birth defect then you are more likely to be an excellent candidate because if it's from a traumatic injury you are likely to have scar tissue and sometimes cannot be removed because of it's location. Therefore seizures cannot completely be eliminated but can be reduced. I had a right temporal lobectomy in March, 07' and have been seizure free every since. I was in the hospital 11 days. I am even off of medication. Regardless of the amount of time it takes, it is definitely worth a shot.

Depending on severity, they usually live just as long as people without epilpsy.

No US president is known to have had epilepsy.

Under most scenarios, it is impossible to have a seizure relating to the steroids unless:

1.) You inject a very large amount of the oil directly into a major vein

2.)You inject a large amount of air directly into a major vein

3.)You insert the needle directly into a major nerve bundle and leave it there.......

3.)Or you have an intense adverse allergic reaction to something in the oil

White, i would think

Actually, it is purple (some say lavendar) and is worn annually on March 26 to globally support and spread epilepsy awareness.

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.

The brain is the only area affected by Epilepsy. As the brain controls many other parts of the body, other things can then be indirectly affected, like the nervous system, which is why shaking is sometimes associated with epilepsy. Seizures affect different people in different ways, so not everyone shakes when they have a seizure.

People can start to have seizures at any stage of their life, for all sorts of reasons. There is not one single cause. Seizures can be caused by a wide variety of things, so it would be impossible to answer that question definitively as each case is different.

There are all sorts of causes of seizures. Walking in itself would not be one of them. However someone with photosensitive epilepsy could have a seizure triggered if they encountered flashing lights or other interrupted light effects during a walk.