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Epilepsy during Pregnancy

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Women who have epilepsy tend to have more seizures when they are pregnant. Can pregnancy trigger epilepsy? Seizures are triggered due to shocks Shocks can be any form may be an audio, video or direct electric shock The sudden shock of pregnancy can trigger seizures, it is not that pregnancy triggers seizures but instead, it is the shock that you got pregnant triggers seizure Pregnancy does not cause epilepsy. In any case, a pregnant lady who has epilepsy may have seizures all the more regularly. This might be on account of solutions to treat epilepsy can work diversely amid pregnancy. They may not be retained also. Or on the other hand, they may not fill in also. Likewise, ladies who have sickness and regurgitating in early pregnancy may upchuck the medication before it has its full impact. Symptoms of epilepsy during pregnancy: The manifestations are the same as indications when a lady isn't pregnant. A lady with epilepsy has successive or general

Seizure Detection Using Scalp-EEG

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Seizure Detection Using Scalp-EEG Not all seizures are because of epilepsy. There are other therapeutic conditions that may make somebody have a seizure, for instance, diabetes. The distinction between epileptic seizures and different seizures is that epileptic seizures are caused by a disturbance in the way the mind is working. The way that epileptic seizures dependably begin in the cerebrum is imperative while thinking about the EEG. An EEG takes a gander at what is going on in the cerebrum – the movement of the mind cells. It doesn't take a gander at the structure of the cerebrum (how the mind is made up).  Scalp electroencephalography (EEG)- based seizure-discovery calculations connected in a clinical setting ought to recognize a wide scope of various seizures with high affectability and selectivity and ought to be anything but difficult to use with indistinguishable parameter settings for all patients. Accessible calculations give sensitivities in the vicinity

Say NO to liquor: To AVOID Seizures

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Say NO to liquor: To AVOID Seizures Individuals with epilepsy, liquor utilization can have dangerous results. Despite the fact that there is by all accounts no expanded danger of seizures for people with epilepsy who devour under 50g (roughly 2 drinks) of liquor daily, there is a 15-20 times increment in chance while expending more than a 200g multi-day. In that capacity, hard-core boozing and liquor withdrawal can cause seizures and even status epilepticus. In little sums, liquor does not cause any antagonistic impacts for individuals with epilepsy; truth be told, a little measure of red wine at supper can be painful to one's wellbeing. Little measures of liquor don't adjust levels of the drug in a man's blood. In almost all instances of seizures activated by liquor manhandle, it was the withdrawal procedure that caused the seizures, not simply the drinking. Liquor-related seizures frequently happen inside 6 to 72 hours in the wake of drinking. The larger pa

Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE)

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Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) For in excess of 33% of youngsters living with epilepsy, at present affirmed meds don't stop their seizures. This measurement has not changed for as far back as five decades, notwithstanding the improvement of numerous new hostile to seizure drugs. This case is called Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Treatment objectives for epilepsy are no seizures, no reactions, at the earliest opportunity, yet these objectives are over and over again neglected. Roughly 1 million individuals in the United States keep on having seizures regardless of satisfactory treatment with antiseizure drugs, speaking to 40% of those with epilepsy, and 80% of the cost of epilepsy. Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) can be related with formative deferral in new-born children with epilepsy , and extreme handicap and horribleness in more established kids and grown-ups, and additionally a death rate 5– 10 times that of the all-inclusive community. While conclusion and

Keto Diet Helps Prevent Seizures: Gut Bacteria May Be Key

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Keto diet for seizures   The ketogenic eating regimen is a high-fat, low-sugar eating regimen that is as of late turned out to be well known for weight reduction. Be that as it may, the eating routine has been utilized to treat epilepsy since the 1920s, as indicated by the Epilepsy Society , a philanthropy in the United Kingdom. Albeit a great many people with epilepsy today control their seizures with against epileptic medications, the eating routine is some of the time recommended to kids with epilepsy who have not reacted to a few pharmaceuticals. While on the eating regimen, the body is compelled to utilize fats rather than carbohydrates(sugars) as its fuel source. At the point when this happens, the body produces mixes called ketones, which cells can use for vitality Scientists have concocted numerous speculations for why the keto eating regimen decreases seizures, yet the correct system stays hazy. In the new examination, the analysts utilized a mouse model of epi