Epilepsy

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.

Epilepsy has many forms and many causes, so no one thing or type of thing can be said to be good for it. In the same way, no particular foods could be said to be good for epilepsy. The only advice is to generally eat healthily.

It has been said that people with Epilepsy can be less fertile than someone that does not have Epilepsy. The difference, if any, is very minor. It can actually be a result of medications being taken, rather than Epilepsy itself. There is little affect on the ability of couples to have children where one or other or both have epilepsy. People may have fertility problems that have no connection to the fact they have epilepsy.

Epilepsy is diagnosed by a person having seizures. For some people the seizures are frequent and strong. Someone having a milder form will not get seizures very often. The seizures they get will be very mild, maybe manifesting themselves as short periods of loss of conciousness, or even just feeling a little "strange" (hard to really describe this as it is different for different people) for a moment and then feeling fine. They may feel like a seizure is coming on, but it never actually happens. Most seizures are preceded by something as a person feels it coming on. This is normally called an aura, which is different for different people, the strange feeling I mentioned. It could be a physical sensation. The seizure will then follow. Someone with a mild form may get an aura, but not have a full seizure at all.

some of the other side symptoms are that the person see double of evrything and sometime walks like they are drunk

Yes. People with epilepsy do all sorts of things that other people do. Having epilepsy doe not prevent people from flying. The only thing in relation to flying that they can't do is pilot a plane, in case they had a seizure at the controls.

They can, but it depends on the severity of epilepsy that a person has, so it is often on a case by case basis in terms of what activities they take part in while there. Everyone is different. A person can often know themselves as to where their limitations are, and doctors can also advise them.

Just leave them until the seizure is over. Make sure the area is safe though. When the seizure is over put them in the recovery position, tipping their head back to make sure their airway is clear

No. Epilepsy is not an infectious disease that you can catch from someone or through a virus. It is a physical ailment, affecting electronic activity in the brain There are various causes for that, but a virus would not be amongst them. Unless a virus could cause some physical damage to the brain, there is no way it can cause epilepsy.

Epilepsy comes in many types, levels of severity and with many causes. Every case is different. Some people may have epilepsy for life and others may have it for a short time. So the treatment period can vary extensively.

There are many different ways to try to control seizures, including medication, brain surgery, Vagus nerve stimulation. Sometimes, seizures can be controlled; sometimes they cannot. Sometimes, seizures stop by themselves. For more information, go to www.epilepsyfoundation.org.

On a personal note, I have been epileptic since 1975. During this time I had a grande - mal fit approximately every 3 months. I was an occasional drinker of alcohol and in the eighties stopped my alcohol intake completely. Although I am still on medication for epilepsy, my last fit was in 1995. I have always taken my medication as I know an epileptic fit will most certainly happen if I do not. However, my epilepsy is now completely controlled.

Same reason we have seizures.

The brain just you know :(

You would be diagnosed with epilepsy if you are having recurring seizures. Every case of epilepsy is different as there are different forms and different levels of severity of epilepsy. So what happens to each person will depend on their case. They would likely put on some form of medication and may be sent for further tests and further appointments with their doctor will be made.

i'm not sure what the question here means (it's awkwardly phrased) but assuming that you mean "Can the saliva of someone who has epilepsy give other people epilepsy", the answer is NO. We're not dealing with anything contagious here. It's not like AIDs or the common cold; you cannot catch it. Think about someone with diabetes spitting on you. Would that cause diabetes? Nope. You can't catch epilepsy, nor can you be "infected" with epilepsy. Epilepsy is often times a genetic thing, and if you have had a seizure or think you may have epilepsy, consult a doctor. Also you shouldn't let people spit on you.

Epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurrent seizures. Seizures come in many flavors, including myoclonic, tonic-clonic, and absence, just to name a few. An individual's epileptic seizures may be dominated by one or more types. Pharmacologic agents used to treat epilepsy target the seizure types experienced by patients.

Some drugs used in the treatment of epilepsy include carbamazepine, valproic acid, phenytoin, and ethosuximide. All are considered anti-epileptic drugs. These agents work by pressing on the brain's brakes to inhibit the overactivity that leads to seizures. In addition you can do less stressful activities to calm down your brain and you heart rate.

Epilepsy is not a specific disease as such. It is basically a catch-all term to cover the tendency to have recurring seizures. There are many kinds of seizures, many levels of severity of seizures and many causes of seizures, so it is simpler to use one broad term to cover it all. So once someone has recurring seizures, they are said to have Epilepsy. After that, different forms of Epilepsy can be defined depending on the factors listed above.

It is possible, but extremely rare. If someone was doing an otherwise dangerous activity or was in a dangerous situation and then had a seizure, they could die, but it would not be the epilepsy that would have killed them. So as examples, climbing a high ladder, sky diving, swimming, driving etc. If someone was doing one of those and had a seizure, they could be killed, like if they fell off the ladder. This is why some of these activities are not advisable for people with epilepsy. It would take a very serious seizure for the seizure itself to kill a person, but most people who have epilepsy have seizures that are not in any way life threatening.

I know two people that have died during a seizure. One went into cardiac arrest and the other was in a state of status epilepticus, was ventilated and was given propofol. The seizure went on for so long, that he died as a result.

I remember my mom used to make me feel better about worries of my own epilepsy by telling me some of the most influential (not to mention--intelligent) people were epileptics. Socrates, Aristotle, Julius Caesar...and so on.

While I can't find any info to prove it, my 10 year old is not growing! She was in the 75th percentile as a baby. Now, all her friends are growing, while she isn't. We're really getting worried about this, enough to where we're going to talk to the doctor about taking her off of it. I would *love* to find out if anyone else is having these problems. SOMEONE, PLEASE RESPOND!