A seizure can cause jerky muscle movements, loss of consciousness, or confusion. Recurrent means you have a seizure more than once. The cause of your seizures may not be known. Some common triggers are alcohol, drugs, lack of sleep, fever, or a virus. High or low blood sugar levels ...
Epilepsy, the fourth most common neurological disorder, affects people of all ages and can cause unpredictable seizures. Learn more from the Epilepsy Foundation
A seizure is an episode of abnormal brain activity. A seizure can cause jerky muscle movements, loss of consciousness, or confusion. Recurrent means you have a seizure more than once. The cause of your seizures may not be known. Some common triggers are alcohol, drugs, lack of sleep, feve...
Side effects may includerashes, having more bodyhairthan normal, andweightchanges. They can also cause more serious problems, likeliverorboneissues. If that happens, you move on to a different drug. About 1 in 4 kids stop having focal onset seizures when they get older. So if your child ...
Seizures occur due to a malfunction of the brain's electrical system. Some seizures are caused by brain diseases, tumors, genetic conditions, or other illnesses or disorders that can be diagnosed (symptomatic seizures). When the cause for the seizures is unknown, they are referred to as idiopat...
Lacosamide is a prescription medicine used to treat partial-onset seizures in people 4 years of age and older. This epilepsy drug may cause suicidal thoughts and is also potentially addictive. Vimpat... Can a Person With Epilepsy Live a Normal Life? Can a person with epilepsy live a normal ...
New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE) Ways to Reduce Seizure Emergencies Taking Medication as Prescribed Missing doses of seizure medicine is the most common cause of breakthrough seizures. Missed medicines can trigger seizures in people with both well-controlled and drug-resistant epilepsy....
Falling because you can't control your balance Suicide due to depression Brain death due to seizures Brain injury A lack of lung control Cardiac arrest Treatment for Huntington's disease The only way to prevent HD is to have genetic testing or preimplantation genetic diagnosis, not to pass it ...
People who get seizures that start on one side of the brain (called focal onset) are more likely to have clusters. But generalized onset seizures, which start on both sides of the brain, can also cluster in some people. (Some generalized seizures start out as focal onset ones.) ...
Generalized onset seizures: Focal onset seizures: Unknown onset seizures: What are the 3 main phases of a seizure? Seizures take on many different forms and have a beginning (prodrome and aura), middle (ictal) and end (post-ictal) stage. Can epilepsy be caused by stress? Stress can someti...