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Breath Holding Seizures - Articles
Holding your breath = Holding your stutter?
by
Tom Weidig
Posted
Sat 24 Jul 2010 12:38am
I have been writing before about my suspicion that mechanisms responsible for holding your breath longer also modulate the occurring and expression of stuttering symptoms... the need to get the words out immediately, was able to wait a bit to continue speaking, and able to control the expression of my symptoms more. And yesterday I was holding my breath
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First ER visit for breath-holding spells
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Carrie Ostrea
Posted
Mon 30 Nov 2009 10:02pm
wasn’t.
Long story short, the ER pediatrician believes she has breath-holding spells with seizure-like activity based on her history and today’s event. She also believes... episodes where she would start choking on a piece of food (cheerios, goldfish, or vienna sausage), and she would have what seems like a panic attack and stop breathing for about 30
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Breath holding breakthrough for Rett Syndrome!
by
Abbysworld
Posted
Mon 04 Oct 2010 12:00am
A group of researchers at the University of Bristol have sequestered the potentially fatal breath holding episodes associated with the autistic-spectrum disorder Rett syndrome... holding, putting the patient at risk of asphyxiation and further brain damage. Other disorders include repetitive hand movements, digestive and bowel problems, seizures, learning
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Breath Holding Spells....Scary!
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Melanie
Posted
Wed 01 Jul 2009 5:44pm
knew she was going to cry so I picked her up. I waited for that big scream, but it didn't come...she was holding her breath! This has happened before, so I just held her waiting... on the Internet and found that this is called BHS or breath holding spells. It described exactly what had happened to her. It is a reflex, not something that children do on purpose...how
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Breath-holding, hypoxia…
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Carrie Ostrea
Posted
Mon 28 Feb 2011 3:42am
, tightened up her throat, and started having a breath holding spell because she started getting upset. We immediately had to put in the smaller size trach, which thankfully is small... a huge sigh of relief. I hate this trach, hate it. But on the other hand, if we didn’t have the trach during this breath-holding spell, we couldn’t pour oxygen into her lungs
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Hold Your Breath Sucker!
by
WellYourself
Posted
Sun 06 Mar 2011 2:31pm
From Discovery News
THE GIST:
The new record for breath-holding is 19 minutes and 21 seconds.
There are tricks to holding your breath for long periods of time, but the practice can be dangerous.
There may be long-lasting health consequences to extreme breath-holding.
A Swiss freediver held his breath underwater for 19 minutes and 21
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Holding Our Breath
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Erinn ..
Posted
Thu 10 Dec 2009 12:00am
Today we are waiting on big news. We are 75% sure E will get a job offer today. We just hope after all of this time, the moving and changing our kid's schools, the sacrfifices, the doubt, the hope, the loss of faith, the stress, the exhaustion, the facing the unkown day after day, that the offer is solid.
All we need is a good, solid offe ...
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Not holding our breath
by
Single Dad
Posted
Wed 05 Jan 2011 7:24pm
As I do everyday, I met Pearlsky when she came home on the bus today, Wednesday, swim day. I speak to the aide on the bus. How was swimming? I wasn’t there, but I am told that they changed her into her suit but did not let her swim. She just watched. I’ll deal with that. [...]
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Holding My Breath
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Andy
Posted
Mon 09 Nov 2009 10:01pm
Another Monday morning, and I lay in bed for nearly an hour before rolling out. Yay, fight team fight! But, I'm still holding my breath, waiting to see if I..., a week, the amount of breath that can be used is impossible to gage. Just start kicking toward surface. The closer, the easier it is to swim. Head above water, means all
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