Why do seizures happen? A seizure occurs when one or more parts of thebrain has a burst of abnormal electrical signals that interrupt normal brain signals. Anything that interrupts the normal connections between nerve cells in the brain can cause a seizure. ...
•Keep pet waste out of the way. Although animals can be a tremendous source of love and joy for people living with AIDS, handling their waste products can be dangerous-even deadly. Toxoplasmosis, a serious fungal infection that leads to seizures, coma, and death, is spread most commonly ...
Epileptic seizures happen when brain cells become too excitable and start firing out of control. This sometimes starts in just a small region--most often one of the temporal lobes, at the side of the head--and then spreads. With epilepsy, one form of biofeedback training aims to let people...
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This can lead to febrile seizures (seizures brought on by fever or overheating) and even death in serious cases. A child with CIPA can break a leg and never notice. Fractures and burns are very common. A problem that's more difficult to deal with is joint deterioration. People with CIPA...
I had a brain tumor and constant seizures when I was 14 until I was 16 (it was removed and my seizures stopped). I’m 24 now but still constantly scan and over analyze every symptom whether it be related to my head or general. You truly feel like something is fundamentally wrong and...
Note: Consuming more than 1.5 g of sodium can cause hypernatremia. This condition occurs when the sodium content is almost the same as the water level in the body. It causes neurons to shrink and may cause seizures and brain damage. ...
when bleeding from the brain's blood vessels causes the pressure in the skull to rise, is often caused by high blood pressure, but can also happen because of a head injury, medications or malformations of the brain's blood vessels. infections like meningitis or encephalitis can make the brain...
When I was a teacher, I came close to burnout. It made me sad to know the way that I was working was not sustainable. I wasn’t the mom or wife that I wanted to be. I was suffering with my health: I have epilepsy. Year after year, I had more seiz...
Less commonly, scabies infestation can happen through the sharing of clothes and bedding. Theoretically, a person can get scabies from touching something that the mite is on, but that is not a major mode of transmission. The mite only lives for 2 to 3 days away from human skin. Human scab...