Archive for the ‘Brain Disease’ Category
Generalized Seizures Treatment
Treatment
If you had only one unprovoked seizure, may not have another. For this reason, your doctor may decide to control your condition without prescribing medication.
In most cases, be deemed to have a low risk of having a second seizure if not suffering from a brain lesion (tumor, trauma, infections), if you have no family history of epilepsy and whether the results of diagnostic tests , including an EEG are normal.
If you have had at least two seizure episodes and was diagnosed with epilepsy, your doctor will treat you with an antiepileptic drug (an anticonvulsant). Common antiepileptic drugs used to treat generalized seizures, including valproate (Depakote), carbamazepine (Tegretol, Carbatrol and others), phenytoin (Dilantin) and topiramate (Topamax). If your seizures can not be controlled with medicine alone, your doctor will try a combination of drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
Generalized Seizures Prevention
Duration
About 50% of people who have unprovoked seizures never experience a second episode.
Most people with epilepsy can avoid seizures if you get enough sleep and taking medications as directed by your doctor as. Most people with epilepsy need to take medication indefinitely. Nape stop taking the medication without specific instructions from your doctor.
If you have had some seizures and EEG is a result of its normal, your doctor may reevaluate the need to take medications if they have seizures after two to five years. Read the rest of this entry »
Generalized Seizures: Symptoms and Diagnosis
Symptoms
A seizure begins suddenly. Without warning, the person loses consciousness and experience the following symptoms:
* Becomes rigid (extends his arms and legs, arch your back) and falls
* Vocalizes a crying (typical moan epilepticus) as the diaphragm contracts and pushes the air between the vocal cords out
* Spasms in the arms, legs and muscles
* Urinating and sometimes even has involuntary bowel movements
The seizure usually gives in minutes or less and leaves the person in a state of confusion and drowsiness. Over the next 24 hours, the person may complain of muscle aches, headache, fatigue and difficulty concentrating. Read the rest of this entry »
Generalized Seizures (Grand Mal Seizures)
Normally the brain’s nerve cells (neurons) communicate with each other by transmitting tiny electrical signals. The transmission pattern of these electric signals reflects brain activity. The location of these signals indicates what the brain is doing, how to think, see, feel, hear, track the movement of muscles, etc..
A seizure occurs when the pattern of transmission of electrical signals from the brain suddenly becomes abnormal and usually severe, either in an isolated area of ??the brain or around the brain.
If the whole brain is affected, the condition is called generalized seizure power. This type of seizure used to be called grand mal seizures. The symptom most easily recognized in the generalized seizure is the body stiffness and muscle spasms called tonic-clonic seizures. Read the rest of this entry »