Epilepsy

Epilepsy is generally not a lifelong disease, and only 25% of those affected have attacks that are difficult to control. In my experience, those who have more lasting disorders have more serious conditions in progress.

Epilepsy

Diastat, or diazepan, is the medicine used to treat a prolonged attack or group attacks. It is a gel supplied in a plastic applicator that, unfortunately, has to be applied rectally.

Epilepsy

The appropriate treatment for someone with a tonic-clonic attack is not that you see it on TV (many people pressurizing a person who is suffering an attack). What you should do: pay attention to the duration of the attack, move the objects that the attacking person can reach, and just block the path to prevent them from moving too far (or fall into the water, or fall out of bed , etc). Put them aside after the episode and don't put anything in your mouth. If it lasts more than five minutes, call an ambulance.

Epilepsy

Attacks have a beginning, middle and end. The beginning, called an aura, may show signs of the coming attack, such as smells, sounds, flavors, light-headedness, dejá vu or ever vu (the opposite of dejá-vu, the subject knows that he has already witnessed the situation or visited the other times, but it feels like it's the first time). The means is the attack itself, be it an attack of great evil or a simple partial attack. The end of the attack is called the post-ictal phase and is the phase in which the brain is recovering, which can take from a few seconds to hours and is usually accompanied by disorientation and memory loss.

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In the early 20th century, some states in the United States had laws prohibiting people with epilepsy from marrying or becoming parents, some even allowing sterilization.

Epilepsy

The official color of Epilepsy Awareness is lavender, in the Pantone PMS 2593 color.

Epilepsy

About 1 in 20 epileptics are sensitive to flashing lights, or photosensitive epilepsy. The contrast, or change in lighting, can trigger an attack.

Epilepsy

Only in about 30% of cases of epliepsia the cause is determined. In the other 70%, the cause remains unanswered, in which case it is called idiopathic epilepsy.

Epilepsy

Everyone is born with an attack threshold. If the threshold is high, you are unlikely to suffer an attack. However, certain activities or things, known as triggers, can lower your threshold, such as alcohol intake, sleep deprivation, stress, illness, flashing lights and hormones (especially for women).

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In the early 19th century, people with severe epilepsy were treated in nursing homes. But one of the reasons they were kept separate from psychiatric patients was because of the misconception that attacks were contagious.

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 In the same way that a diabetic can be mistaken for a drunk driver, epileptics can present attacks that manifest themselves as bizarre behavior, such as: repetition of the same word, not answering questions, talking nonsense, removing clothes or shouting (in the case Nic, he was considered a great threat to a whole class of students when he was suffering from an attack of this nature).

Epilepsy

There are some recent implications that suggest that epilepsy is related to anxiety and depression.

Epilepsy

You cannot swallow your tongue during an attack. You can't swallow it now, can you?

Epilepsy

Simple attacks of Generalized Tonic-Clonic epilepsy (also known as Great Evil) last less than 5 to 10 minutes, and do not cause brain damage, contrary to the general belief. The damage that eventually appears is probably the result of trauma to the head (bumps).

Epilepsy

Hippocrates (460 BC - 370 BC) wrote the first book on epilepsy, "About Sacred Evil", around 400 BC, recognizing that it was a brain disorder and pointing out that people who suffered from epilepsy did not have the power of prophecy.