Category Archives: Epilepsy

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO EPILEPTIC SEIZURE CONTROL: VIDEORECORDING

2011-02-20T08:34:18+0000">February 20, 2011 – 8:34 am

No one ever sees themselves during a seizure. Even if you have epilepsy yourself, you may never have seen anyone else have a seizure. Videorecording can be helpful if one of your main worries about having a seizure is what you look like, how you appear to onlookers and what they think of you. People [...]

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TESTS IN EPILEPSY: OTHER TESTS

2009-04-28T12:35:57+0000">April 28, 2009 – 12:35 pm

Blood tests are seldom informative in patients with epilepsy but may be useful in the early days of life, when chemical abnormalities may precipitate seizures. A lumbar puncture may be carried out if an infection such as meningitis or encephalitis is suspected as causing epileptic seizures. Occasionally, removal of tissues (biopsy) for microscopic analysis may [...]

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