Seizures
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Seizures Underlying Cause
Common causes
for seizures include:
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol withdrawal
Breath holding spell
Cancer
Concussion
Drug abuse
:
Amphetamines
Cocaine
Marijuana
Encephalitis
Epilepsy
Fever
Head injury
Insulin reaction
Low blood
oxygen
Low blood pressure
Low blood sugar
Petit-mal seizure
Stroke
Vasovagal syncope
Less common causes
for seizures include:
AIDS
Alzheimer's disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyloidosis
Brain abscess
Brain tumor
Cerebral aneurysm
Cerebral hemorrhage
Cerebral arteriovenous malformation
Depression
:
Older adults with
major depression
have six times the risk
Drug interaction
Drug side effect
:
Drug toxicity
or overdose
Drug withdrawal
Eclampsia
Epidural hematoma
Fat embolism
Febrile seizure
:
Heatstroke
Hydrocephalus
Hypocalcemia
Hypoglycemia
Hypomagnesemia
Hypotension
or
shock
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Kidney failure
Lead poisoning
Liver failure
Malaria
Meningitis
Multiple sclerosis
Neurofibromatosis
Neurosyphilis
Organophosphate poisoning:
Insecticides
Parkinson's disease
Phenylketonuria
Pulmonary embolism
Reye's syndrome
Reye's syndrome
Sarcoidosis
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Subdural hematoma
Tay-Sachs disease
Thiamine deficiency
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Tourette's syndrome
Whooping cough
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Seizures Types
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
Loss of consciousness
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Last Updated: Nov 13, 2008
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Seizures References:
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Camfield P, Camfield C. Epileptic syndromes in childhood: clinical features, outcomes, and treatment. Epilepsia. 2002;43 Suppl 3:27-32.
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.
