Epilepsy

Do you know what is seizure?

Seizure is when you have uncontrolled repeated body part movement,more or less like a jerking effect. Your hands and legs would shake so fast because of involuntary muscle contraction. Your eyes would turn upward.Seizure can be due to intoxication,sepsis (when bacteria invade our body..) or it can be due to a genetic defect..

Do you have more than one seizure attack in your life? Then maybe you have a condition called epilepsy.

What is epilepsy?

Epilepsy is a chronic disease with repeated seizures with other attacks,you would lose consciousness and you can also have a change in personality.

Why do people suffer from epilepsy?

The reason varies depending on group of ages. Some babies experience epilepsy when he/she is hypoxic (meaning you dont get enough oxygen), or maybe because of genetic defect in metabolism or maybe other perinatal disturbance. (perinatal means any period immediately after birth or before delivery)

Young adults may suffer from epilepsy after head trauma (trauma meaning injury resulted by strong force of impact on the area of your head). Some due to development of tumor.

For older people, epilepsy can occur if they have ischemic stroke (stroke is when you dont have enough blood going through to your brain blood vessels)

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