Focal seizures - Epilepsy Action
网页Focal aware seizure. During a focal aware seizure, you stay fully aware of what’s happening around you, even if you can’t move or respond. This type of seizure used to be called a simple partial seizure. Some people with epilepsy use the word ‘aura’ to describe the feeling they get that warns them they’re about to have a tonic-clonic ...
Tonic-clonic seizures - Epilepsy Action
网页Tonic-clonic seizures are the type of epileptic seizure most people recognise. In the past they were called grand-mal seizures. Tonic-clonic seizures can have a generalised onset, meaning they affect both sides of the brain from the start. When this happens, the seizure is called a generalised tonic-clonic or bilateral convulsive seizure.
Absence seizures - Epilepsy Action
网页Typical absences. If you are having a typical absence seizure, you will suddenly stop what you are doing for a few seconds, but will not fall. You might appear to be daydreaming or ‘switching off’. People around you might not notice your absence seizure. Your eyelids might flutter and you might have slight jerking movements of your body or ...
About seizures - Epilepsy Action
网页Epilepsy is a condition that affects the brain and causes frequent seizures. Electrical activity is happening in our brains all the time, as networks of tiny brain cells send messages to each other. These messages control all our thoughts, movements, senses and body functions. A seizure happens when there is a sudden, intense burst of ...
Epilepsy medicines - Epilepsy Action
网页Epilepsy medicines. The main treatment for epilepsy is taking epilepsy medicines. They are also known as epilepsy medication, anti-seizure medications (ASMs) or anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). They don’t cure epilepsy, but try to prevent seizures from happening. They do this by changing the levels of chemicals in the brain that control ...
Sleep seizures - Epilepsy Action
网页Sleep and epilepsy affect each other in a 2-way relationship. Tiredness and lack of sleep can be a seizure trigger for some people, and having seizures can lead to poor sleep and tiredness. If you have a seizure during your sleep, it may affect your sleep for the rest of the night by making your sleep lighter and causing you to wake up more often.
Buccal midazolam - Epilepsy Action
网页Buccal Midazolam – Buccal midazolam is one type of emergency medicine used to stop prolonged seizures. Buccal – means the space between the gum and cheek where the medicine is administered. Midazolam – is the name of the medicine. Midazolam works by reducing electrical activity in the brain which can stop seizures.
First aid - Epilepsy Action
网页When someone is having a seizure it’s important to stay with them until the seizure is over and they are fully recovered. Look for an epilepsy identity card or identity jewellery – it may give you information about their seizures and what to do. Most people with epilepsy don’t need an ambulance when they have a seizure.
Tonic seizures - Epilepsy Action
网页If you’re standing, you may fall to the floor. Your neck will extend, your eyes open wide and roll upwards. Your arms may raise upwards and your legs stretch or contract. You may cry out and stop breathing during the seizure. If a tonic seizure starts in one side of the brain, your muscles tighten in just one area of the body.
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome - Epilepsy Action
网页Lennox-Gastaut syndrome affects around 1 or 2 in every 100 children with epilepsy. The most common time for this syndrome to start is between 3 and 5 years of age. It can start as early as 18 months or, very rarely, as late as age 10 years of age. Usually, children will be diagnosed with a different epilepsy syndrome first, which later becomes ...