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My New Research Topic: Detoxification for Seizures & General Health by Ali Patient Expert

Posted Thu 20 May 2010 5:54pm ... how do we know for sure what is good and what is bad? Here's the message: No Cause, No Cure? The Story of My Son's Seizures By Steve Wohlberg "Like a flitting sparrow, like... the terrible struggles my wife Kristin and I have experienced as a result of our son's seizures, and the valuable lessons we have learned. My prayer is that these words will honor Read on »

New-Onset Afebrile Seizures in Infants Are Generally Brief, but Often Recurrent by Poh Tin Tan Posted Fri 12 Feb 2010 12:00am in 298 (94%) patients, EEGs from 286 (90.2%), and MRI in 182 (57.4%). Nearly half of the infants were having partial seizures. Evidence for primary generalized seizures was rare. The researchers note that only 6 infants without partial features had generalized epileptiform discharges. Overall, 71% of infants had more than one seizure upon presentation, and 38 Read on »

Urinating During a Seizure by Methods of Healing Patient Expert

Posted Wed 17 Mar 2010 10:34pm of behavior or repetitive movements can be a seizure. A doctor must diagnose epilepsy. Grand Mal seizures or generalized seizures as they are sometimes called involve all areas of the brains cortex. Urinating during a seizure is possible during generalized seizures. Partial or Focal seizures only involve one part of the brain and therefore only one part Read on »

Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs by Stephen Tvedten Patient Expert

Posted Sat 04 Dec 2010 8:36am Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/07/17/seizure_inducing_aspartame_added_to_antiseizure_drugs.htm Types of SeizuresLearn about the different types of seizures and available treatments. www.lgsinformation.org/lgs The Pacific Epilepsy Society in affiliation with the Epileptic Foundation Read on »

SeizureTracker – Great Tool For Tracking and Recording Seizures by Chris H. Posted Tue 11 May 2010 7:04pm This week I started using an online program called SeizureTracker . Over the past few months, Addi and Cassi have been having seizure episodes and we have been dosing them up and down on different medications. SeizureTracker was created by Rob and Lisa Moss, parents with a son named Evan who suffers from Read on »

Less seizures, but still fighting the seizure monster! by Kelly Patient Expert

Posted Wed 09 Feb 2011 1:12am the later of those choices! Since getting to the full dose on Banzel, we've started to see some decrease in seizures for Jenelle. And by that I mean... instead of big seizures every other day/week, we're seeing more time pass between episodes of seizure clusters. Improvement? Yes, you could say that. I've been biting my tongue, and knocking on wood Read on »

Seizures? by Ali Patient Expert

Posted Fri 02 Oct 2009 3:07pm experiencing brain stem activity which acts as seizures, and is not measurable by an EEG. Even in "typical" children, seizures can take place in all of the brain as a "generalized... by the electrical disturbance that produces seizures. Experts divide seizures into generalized seizures (absence,atonic, tonic-clonic,myoclonic), partial (simple and complex) seizures Read on »

Witnessing a Seizure: What Should You Do? by EpilepsyTeam .. Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm may be tougher when witnessing the more dramatic generalized seizure. WILLIAM ROSENFELD, MD: Many people are familiar with the grand mal or generalized tonic-clonic seizure because it's the most dramatic. It comes from the French, "big, bad seizure," where someone may fall to the ground and have generalized stiffening and jerking of the body Read on »

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO REACT TO A SEIZURE? by Stephanie S. Jewett Posted Sat 26 Jun 2010 11:54am and scared. If the person is not known to have epilepsy, the episode is very scary. In general, seizures may be caused by many conditions, diseases, injuries and other... Witnessing a seizure can be scary and it is important that you know what to do in case of the event. First, a seizure is normally caused by abnormal Read on »

How Do You Like Your Seizures? Rare, Medium or Well Done? by patientanonymous Patient Expert

Posted Sun 25 Apr 2010 12:00am seizures! My legs are going nuts and falling apart all over the place! Those are generalized seizures! They’re affecting my whole brain! Whether they’re occurring as Primary Generalized (immediately on their own) or Secondary Generalized (having a Simple Partial first), it doesn’t matter! And a large per centage of the higher order thinking, Reflex seizures Read on »