Seizures
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Seizures Incidence
Facts about seizures:
About 200,000 people experience a seizure for the first time each year in the US.
About 4 million people in the US have had a seizure.
There are up to 100,000 new cases of
epilepsy
diagnosed every year.
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Seizures Symptoms
Related Topics:
Epilepsy
Febrile seizure
Loss of consciousness
Petit-mal seizures
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Tonic clonic seizure
Tremors and shakes
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Dizziness
Faintness
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Last Updated: Aug 13, 2008
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Kinsman SL, Vining EP, Quaskey SA, Mellits D, Freeman JM. Efficacy of the ketogenic diet for intractable seizure disorders: review of 58 cases. Epilepsia. 1992 Nov-Dec;33(6):1132-6.
Pearl PL, Bennett HD, Khademian Z. Seizures and metabolic disease. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2005 Mar;5(2):127-33.
Posner EB, Mohamed K, Marson AG. A systematic review of treatment of typical absence seizures in children and adolescents with ethosuximide, sodium valproate or lamotrigine. Seizure. 2005 Mar;14(2):117-22.
