Seizure trigger

Poison Control, Seizures and Tourniquets After taking this course in first aid, has proven to be very useful to people from all walks of life, like the busy parent and working professionals, that I am. There was many thing that I learned from taking this class, but the three things that I found interesting and or could be useful to have up to date knowledge about are, poison control, seizure and tourniquets. If you took a first aid class prior to 2010, like I did then, there’s a reasonable…

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder known to be reoccurring seizures that can last from a few seconds to several minutes. It is thought to affect approximately 275000 people throughout Australia and 2/3 of people do not know the cause of this. There are many causes such as brain tumours or infections like meningitis that can cause an epileptic fit. In some people there is no specific cause. When people have epileptic fits they are able to live relatively normal lives.…

identifying if the event was a seizure or a non epileptic event. There are a number of different types of…

Case 3 Sequence 2: Laforin Isoform X4 (EPM2A) Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy is a brain disorder which results in frequent seizures along with a degeneration of intellectual function (“What is Lafora,” 2009). This is the worst teenage-onset progressive epilepsy. Progressive epilepsy means a condition that affects the central nervous system and grows increasingly worse over time (“Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy”). The gene EPM2A, which provides instructions for creating the protein…

status epilepticus. Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as, “An epileptic seizure that lasts more than 30 minutes; a constant or near-constant state of having seizures. Status epilepticus is a health crisis, and requires immediate treatment.” (Medicinenet.com) The adolescent boy had undergone a corpus callostomy, various drug therapies, and even had tried the ketogenic diet but none of these treatments decreased his seizure activity on a long term basis. After about a week in the…

are hereditary, some are caused through serious head injury’s causing Epilepsy. Others are caused through fever’s, Fever’s that strike up to 102.2 degrees causing your body to have convulsions. I was 13 year’s old and my brother had his 1st febrile seizure. He was no more than 8 months old. This was honestly the scariest day of my life. My brother Xavier and I are 13 years apart. I know it’s a big age difference, it was a whole new beginning for my mother and me. It had just been us two for a…

Introduction Matthew 17:15-16 states, “Lord, have mercy on my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him” (NLT). Epilepsy is a lifelong disorder that causes seizures. It affects approximately sixty-five million people across the world. Of that sixty-five million, three million people reside in the United States. Epilepsy is the fourth most prevalent neurologic disorder in the world…

It has no age, racial, social class, national or geographic boundaries” World Health Organization (WHO). Seizures typically last a few seconds to a few minutes; however, the postictal period (where the level of awareness gradually improves) can last from seconds to hours. According to Robert S. Fisher, for a seizure to be considered epilepsy you must have two or more, or at least one seizure with a high chance of another. Epilepsy is a brain disorder that has several distinctive categories,…

At least Trump is Healthy The president of the United States of America is our commander in Chief, The Leader of the Free World, and most importantly, chosen every four years. The Election of 2016 is said to be unlike any election in recent history. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are some of the least popular candidates ever. Both sides seemed to be voting party lines just to keep the other out of The Oval Office. It is generally agreed that a president should be smart, kind, fun, charming,…

distribution, and small unregulated batches grown and used inside the home. In many cases medical marijuana is more beneficial than other medical treatments. For many kids under age ten suffering grand mal seizures it is hard to walk, talk, and even eat, marijuana has been proven to reduce those grand mal seizures. In the case of the federal government what is okay for soldiers coming back with PTSD, is marijuana. In the case of PTSD marijuana acts better than anti-depressants which often lead…