Epilepsy

Epilepsy Epilepsy Epilepsy: A disorder when from time to time nerve cells of the brain release a abnormal electronic impulses. Over 2.5 million people suffer from epilepsy. Epilepsy can happen to anyone of any age. 47 percent of people that have epilepsy developed it from birth to when they are nine years old. About 30 percent develop it between ten and nineteen. The least amount of first time seizures comes from the forty plus age group. (According to EFA publications) The International League against Epilepsy describes a seizure as an alternative term for “epileptic attack”. Seizures vary in their length and severity. A “tonic-clonic” seizure can last for one to seven minutes. “Absence seizures usually last for a few seconds. However, complex partial seizure” may last for thirty seconds or two to three minutes. “Status Epileptics”, is when seizures last for many hours. This can lead to medical problems. This type of seizure is very rare. There are many types of seizures. One type of seizure is a grand mal or a tonic-clonic seizure is one of the worst and most severe seizures. Some know that they are going seizure, seizures, epilepsy, people, type, person, medication, last, brain, cause, tonic-clonic, time, severe, one, minutes, doctors, damage, types, sometimes, severity, seconds, recommend, really, percent, patients, often, medical, leaves, lead, instability, however, experience, exhausted, disoriented, disorder