Now if you have had one seizure, does this mean you have epilepsy? Someone is said to have epilepsy if they experience two or more unprovoked seizures separated by at least 24 hours. If there is a known cause for your seizure such as brain injury then you are twice as likely to have another seizure. You may be wondering how dangerous seizures are.
It is very rare for a person to die from a seizure itself. The main danger of having a seizure involves what happens during the seizure. Since most seizures render a person unconscious and involve uncontrollable limb movements and shaking, it is common for people to be injured with bruises, cuts, burns and falls.
Additionally, swimming alone poses a danger of drowning in the case that a seizure occurs while in the water. Lastly, having a seizure while driving may pose a risk to the life not only of the epileptic person driving but those around him or her. It is essential to work out a safety plan with your doctor that allows for the most flexibility in daily life while also keeping you and those around you safe.
Some helpful tips for making your home safer for you or a loved one with epilepsy include: cooking with a partner, taking showers instead of bath, not swimming without a buddy, using non-breakable dishes, using the microwave for most cooking, consider using a seizure alert monitor or sharing a room so others can hear if a seizure happens, move your bed away from walls, night tables and other sharp or hard objects and using caution with hot foods and liquids. And if you see a loved one having a seizure, the best thing you can do is roll that person onto his or her side to prevent aspiration and avoid putting anything into his or her mouth.
Watch the clock and if the seizure has not stopped in 5 minutes, call or take that person directly to your local emergency room. Despite all of these precautions, it is very much possible to live a normal life with epilepsy. Thanks to new research there are many wonderful medications, and even surgeries that control seizures every day for epileptics around the world. Epilepsy is a brain condition that causes someone to have seizures.
It affects children and adults of all demographics and is one of the most common disorders of the nervous system. Seizures are the main symptom of epilepsy and are caused by an interruption in normal brain signals.
The brain consists of nerve cells that communicate with each other through electrical activity. When one or more parts of the brain has a burst of abnormal electrical signals that interrupt normal brain signals, a seizure occurs. Anything that interrupts the normal connections between nerve cells in the brain can cause a seizure. Epilepsy was misunderstood and stigmatized throughout much of history. People believed that those living with the disease were possessed by spirits or demons.
Hippocrates, the famous Roman physician, discarded the idea epilepsy was a supernatural phenomenon. Instead, Hippocrates posited that epilepsy is a brain malady. Still, epilepsy carries stigma and misunderstanding to this day. People with epilepsy were not allowed to marry in the United States until , according to nationaltoday.
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