Flashing lights and strobe lights and other forms of irregular lighting can affect the optic nerve and the brain. Looking at any light for a prolonged time can do damage to your eyes, which is why you never do things like stare at the sun. Anyone at any stage of their life can have a seizure and never be diagnosed as having epilepsy. Someone who has recurring seizures is deemed to have epilepsy, but if you had one or two and never had any more, you would not be considered to have epilepsy.

So things that trigger seizures in someone who has epilepsy can trigger seizures in anyone. So strobe lights can trigger a seizure in anyone, even if it never happened again. People who have what is known as photosensitive epilepsy can have seizures triggered by strobe lights. Most people who have epilepsy do not have that form, and so strobe lights do not affect them any more than other people who don't have epilepsy at all. Someone who has photosensitive epilepsy has a lower level of susceptibility to strobe lights, than someone who doesn't, but exposing anyone to strobe lighting for long enough could cause them problems, as it is not good to look at it for a long time.

"SYMPTOMS OF GENERALIZED SEIZURES Generalized seizures affect all or most of the brain. They include petit mal and grand mal seizures. Petit mal seizures: * Minimal or no movements (usually, except for "eye blinking") -- may appear like a blank stare * Brief sudden loss of awareness or conscious activity -- may only last seconds * Recurs many times * Occurs most often during childhood * Decreased learning (child often thought to be day-dreaming) Tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizures: * Whole body, violent muscle contractions * Rigid and stiff * Affects a major part of the body * Loss of consciousness * Breathing stops temporarily, followed by sighing * Incontinence of urine * Tongue or cheek biting * Confusion following the seizure * Weakness following the seizure (Todd's paralysis) SYMPTOMS OF PARTIAL SEIZURES (SIMPLE AND COMPLEX) Partial seizures may be complex or simple. Partial seizures affect only a portion of the brain. Symptoms of simple partial (focal) seizures may include: * Muscle contractions of a specific body part * Abnormal sensations * Nausea * Sweating * Skin flushing * Dilated pupils Symptoms of partial complex seizures may include: * Automatism (automatic performance of complex behaviors without conscious awareness) * Abnormal sensations * Nausea * Sweating * Skin flushing * Dilated pupils * Recalled or inappropriate emotions * Changes in personality or alertness * May or may not lose consciousness * Problems with smell or taste -- if the epilepsy is focused in the temporal lobe of the brain"

Can chickens have epilepsy? I'm not a vet or a doctor but I have no doubts whatsoever that chickens can have epilepsy and have seizures that appear to be exactly the same as if a person was having an epileptic seizure.

I have witnessed a number of people having mild to moderate and grand mal seizures but until recently I've never seen an animal have one but have heard of canines having them.

A few days ago, I purchased what appeared to be a perfectly healthy Lemon Pekin Cockerel.

The following day I went to let it out of it's enclosure along with four hens and it appeared lame, as if drunk or it had injured its leg. I checked for any noticable injury but found nothing. A while later, it's happily roaming the garden.

Next day it had to be moved and was put in a suitable box for a short while. A few minutes later I could hear it thrashing about in the box but it wasn't struggling to get out... It was quite clearly having a fit, falling over, struggling to stand and started gasping for breath even though the box was wide open and outside. I thought, chickens can't have fits - or can they?

Later, that same day after further exercise and free-roaming, it had at least another three or four seizures and I'm left with no doubts whatsoever that these were epileptic seizures that were basically the same as those seen in people! So, I vote Yes!

Not really. There are many forms of epilepsy so you can have the same kinds of seizures when you are an adult as when you are a child. Issues like age and gender don't really make a difference. Some children stop having seizures when they grow up and other people will have epilepsy throughout their life and other people may only get epilepsy when they are adults.

1) Prodrome phase (in which visual auras can be experienced or, in some cases, olfactory hallucinations).

2) Ictal phase (in which the seizure activity, itself, occurs).

3) Post-ictal phase (in which the individual does not usually remember the events that occurred just prior to and during the seizure).

Actually a blood test will not show you if you have epilepsy , the test that will clearly tell you if you have it is to do a E.E.G test.

well, an epileptic seizure can very from person to person. And depending on what type. If it is a grand mal, well it can last for a few minutes, but if it is over 7-8 minutes, call and ambulance right away. But if the epileptic seizure is a petite mal, well not more than a sew seconds.

It is possible to die from an epileptic seizure, but it is extremely rare. It would have to be a very severe seizure to do that. You can die indirectly as a result of a seizure, like if you fell from a high place as a result of a seizure or were engaged in some other dangerous activity and had a seizure. This is why people with epilepsy are not advised to drive. Having a seizure while driving could result in a crash and the death of the driver. The death would be a result of the crash, not the seizure itself. Most seizures in themselves are not dangerous. They may cause a temporary loss of conciousness. For most situations that is not a problem and the seizure will pass and the person will recover. That is what happens for the vast majority of people who have seizures. They lead very normal and long lives.

Epilepsy is a physical condition, not a psychological one so it would not affect personality in itself. So the only way it might affect a child is the same way any illness that a child has may affect them. It depends how they react to it and how their friends react. It is important for them to be given as normal an upbringing as possible. A parent obviously has to be careful, but they shouldn't be over-protective. The nature of epilepsy means a person is perfectly fine 99.9% of the time. It is only when they are actually having a seizure that there is any difference. Other illnesses affect someone all the time. So in many ways it should be easier to treat a child with epilepsy like any other child. So a parent has a lot of responsibility in how a child develops. Give them the freedom to develop as normal as possible.

Drugs that are used to treat grand mal seizures are:

Carbamazepine

Phenytoin

Lamotrigine

Valproic acid

Lorazepam

Oxcarbazepine

Clonazepam

Topiramate

Levetiracetam

Tiagabine

Pregabalin

Ethosuximide

First of all let me start off by saying that Epilepsy is the word used when someone has more than one seizure. There are many reasons why you could have Epilepsy, or could have developed it. You could have been born with it, you could of had a head injury, you could have taking the wrong drug or medication. Honestly, there are so many different types of seizures and I am just learning myself that you can have a seizure and not even no it, you can even have seizures in your sleep. I am 32 years old and i was diagnosed as an Epileptic 4 years ago. Let me tell you it has been draining. I am finding out that I have different kinds of seizures that may have even started as early as 10 years ago or more. The truth being that doctors are now finding more and more types of seizures that exist every day. I don't know why i developed it, but if I had to guess it would be because of all the drinking I did when I was younger and being on so many different medications for depression and anxiety, my Doctor would put me on something and if it didn't work he would take me off of it and put me on something else, I have sensitivities to medications also, I no longer have depression but at the time it was like having bottles of different pills just dumped on my brain. It is unfortunate that some doctors just don't care as ling as they get that extra money for writing you that script. but anyways I didn't mean to get off subject, I do that alot LOL. I hope that I helped at least a little. It is a hard thing to go through.

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.

increased rage and sleeplessness.

mood swings, lack of apatite.

safe drug among the conventional older antiepileptics is carbamazepine, ethsuxamide and lamotrigine.

It is not possible to give that advice here, as there are many factors to be taken account of, like what the side effects are and what medication you are on and many other things. Talk to your doctor about any issues around epilepsy and its side effects. You can explain to the doctor what side effects you are experiencing and they can advise you based on the information that you can give them.

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.***

To tell you the truth, these days anything can cause a seizure, disease, death, petting your dog too much. Soon they'll be telling you that you can't have a sexual intercourse with your partner. Don't worry about it leave it all in Gods hands, enjoy life instead of filling your mind with more worry.

Epilepsy has been known to medical science for thousands of years. It is mentioned Babylonian literature, the Bible and in Greek and Roman medical texts. No one knows the person who identified it first.

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try to keep person from hurting them self

DO NOT put anything into the persons mouth .make sure there air way is clear and try to keep them calm

You can't grow out of epilepsy as such but seizures and electrical impulses in an epileptic person's brain can reduce. You'll never fully grow out of them though but they can become less frequent.

Epilepsy is a condition defined as being the tendency to have recurring seizures.