Question 1

i'm online now. type your question here. expecting phenobarb coma tomorrow for partial seizure status. what can we expect in recovery from coma?

Accepted Answer

COMA: What was the cause of the COMA? The reason for the COMA determines the recovery. For example a heroine addict can be in a COMA from overdose, but be back to normal mentation in minutes with narcan. However if someone had head injury or some infection causing COMA recovery can be awhile.

Question 2

6yr old is currently on life support following an epileptic seizure. she has been told she has encephalopathy. is there possibility of recovery.

Accepted Answer

Kids are resilient..: Without knowing any of the details, it is impossible to say. In general, children have an amazing capacity to recover from adverse events. The child's doctors can hopefully give some guidance as to what to expect, but sometimes all we can do is provide supportive care and hope that the child recovers. Time will tell. I hope she gets better soon.

Question 3

are there any drugs that can cause seizures, to get violent, foaming from mouth and long term hospital recovery?

Accepted Answer

Possibly: Not sure if you are referring to medications or to illicit drugs.

Question 4

what cause a seizures?

Accepted Answer

Many reasons: Any type of brain problem may result in a abnormal area which becomes a nidus for seizure activity.  Causes include head injury, brain infections, brain tumors, toxins or poisons, usage or discontinuation or alcohol or recreational drugs, medication reactions, problems with blood sugar or other chemicals, etc.

Question 5

what are silent seizures?

Accepted Answer

No clinical seizure: Pt. Does not show clinical seizure but neurophysiological testing like eeg will show seizure discharges.

Question 6

what are atonic seizures?

Accepted Answer

Loss of tone: Some complex epileptic have drop attacks=fall to the floor because of loss of muscle tone in legs
 usually have other seizures like tonic= totally stiff or starring spells in same child--or myoclonic seizures like simple jerks of trunk or limb.

Question 7

what are partial seizures?

Accepted Answer

Only part of brain: At least at onset these seizures affect only part of the brain. Typically one remains awake - unless generalized to the other hemisphere or occasionally with complex partial seizures. Often confused with panic disorder, migraine headaches, dissociation, amnesia, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and medication/elicit drug reactions.

Question 8

what causes seizures to start?

Accepted Answer

Unknown: When nerve cell in brain fires electrical discharges abnormally, these discharges affect other nerve cells. Our brain has protective mechanism to avoid spread of those discharges. One cause is failure of the mechanism,  why one nerve cell fires abnormally is stll not completely answered. Many researches are going on and more and more new informations are coming up but still no final answer.

Question 9

what are symptoms of seizures?

Accepted Answer

Seizures: Uncontrolled jerks and twitches, loss of consciousness, blank stares...

Question 10

what are the symptoms of seizures?

Accepted Answer

Aura: Most common symptom before a seizure is aura, either a funny light, weird sound, sudden change in mood followed by seizure onset.

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