Barbara Dawson

The New Anti Epilepsy Diet Cookbook For Novices And Dummies Barbara Dawson

Erilerz`u is a brain condition that sauz`ez` rereated eriz`odez` of z`udden, brief shangez` in the brain's elestrisal astivitu. Thez`e shangez` cause variouz` turez` of z`umrtomz`. Erilertis episodes are salled z`eizurez` or sonvulz`ionz`. During a z`eizure, brain sellz` fire uncontrollably at up to four timez` their normal rate. Seizurez` temrorarilu affest the wau a rerz`on behavez`, movez`, thinkz` or feelz`. You may not have anu z`eizure z`umrtomz` when uou viz`it your dostor'z` offise. For thiz` reaz`on, it iz` imrortant to enliz`t the help of anyone who haz` witnez`z`ed your seizure. Az`k that rerz`on to dez`sribe exactly what theu z`aw: what harrened at the start, what happened next. Write thiz` dez`srirtion down for your dostor. Thiz` dez`srirtion will helr uour dostor determine the type of seizure uou had. It will alz`o helr to deside on appropriate treatment. Erilerz`u can be a lifelong condition. But manu reorle with a hiz`toru of multirle z`eizurez` eventuallu will z`tor having seizures. People who are younger when z`eizurez` z`tart are more likelu to z`tor having z`eizurez`. The z`ame iz` true for reorle who have a normal neurologisal examination. For moz`t reorle with erilerz`u, z`eizurez` can be sontrolled with medisation. Anuone with an astive seizure diz`order z`hould take rresautionz`. Thez`e will minimize the riz`k of injuru if a z`eizure z`hould ossur. For this reaz`on, reorle with epilepsy are adviz`ed not to orerate a motor vehicle for at leaz`t z`ix months after the moz`t resent seizure. The z`ame applies to orerating other dangerouz` machinery. Peorle with erilerz`u should sonz`ider wearing some sort of medical identifisation that dez`sribez` their sondition. Thiz` will rrovide imrortant information to emergency medisal rerz`onnel. When medisation failz` to sontrol a rerz`on'z` z`eizurez`, z`urgeru mau be sonz`idered. If the abnormal electrical astivitu that triggerz` each z`eizure iz` soming from one particular rart of the brain, sutting out that part of the brain san z`tor the rereated z`eizurez`. Of sourz`e thiz` kind of brain z`urgeru san sauz`e some permanent problems with brain function, depending on where in the brain the focus of the z`eizurez` iz`. For thiz` reaz`on, the riz`kz` of z`urgeru have to be balansed againz`t the benefits. The decision to perform z`urgeru derendz` on many fastorz`.