Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease that causes seizures periodically. The disease is caused by abnormal brain cell activity. Symptoms vary seizures arise. Some people with epilepsy when seizures have an empty view. Mild seizures requires treatment, because it can be dangerous in case when doing activities such as driving or swimming. Treatment - including medical treatment and sometimes surgery - usually managed to eliminate or reduce the frequency and intensity of seizures. Many children with epilepsy can overcome this condition with age.

symptom
Because epilepsy is caused by abnormal brain cell activity, seizures can affect your brain coordination process. Convulsions can produce:

• Confusion temporary
• uncontrollable jerking movements of the hands and feet
• Loss of consciousness in total

Differences symptoms occur depending on the type of seizures. In many cases, people with epilepsy will tend to have the type of seizure that is the same every time, so it will be the same symptoms that occur from incident to incident. Doctors classify seizures are partial or general, based on how abnormal brain activity begins. In some cases, seizures can begin partially and then became general.

- Partial Seizures (partially)
When seizures arise as a result of abnormal brain activity in one part of the brain, scientists call partial seizures or partial. Convulsions this type consists of two categories.

• Simple partial seizures (simple partial seizures). Convulsions have not resulted in loss of consciousness. Convulsions may be changing emotions or changing the way look, smell, feel, taste, or hear. Convulsions may also produce buffeting parts of the body by accident, such as the hands or feet, and sensory symptoms spontaneously as tingling, vertigo and flashes to light.
• Complex partial seizures (complex partial seizure). Convulsions have resulted in a change of consciousness, it is because you lose vigilance for some time.

- Convulsions general
Seizures that involve all parts of the brain called the seizures general. Four types of seizures general are:
• Absence seizures (also called petit mal). Convulsions have characterized by body movements are smooth and unobtrusive, and can cause loss of consciousness briefly.
• Myoclonic seizures. These seizures usually cause buffeting or sudden twitch of the hands and feet.
• atonic seizures. Also known as drop attacks, seizures have led to the loss of harmony with the muscles and the sudden collapse and fall.
Tonic-clonic seizures • (also called grand mal). Convulsions which has an intensity that most often occur. Having characteristics with loss of consciousness, stiff and shaking, and loss of bladder control.
Causes & Risk Factors
cause

• Genetic influence. Some types of epilepsy decreased in the family, make it like there was a relationship with genetic.

• Trauma to the head. Car accident or other injury can cause epilepsy.

• medical disease. Stroke or heart attack which resulted in damage to the brain can also cause epilepsy. Stroke is the most important cause in the incidence of epilepsy to people over the age of 65 years.

• Dementia. Cause of epilepsy in the elderly.

• Injuries before birth. Fetal brain vulnerable to damage due to infection in the mother, lack of nutrients or oxygen deficiency. This can lead to cerebral palsy in children. Twenty percent of seizures in children associated with cerebral palsy or abnormal neurological.

• The development of the disease. Epilepsy can be associated with the development of other diseases, such as autism and Down syndrome.
  
risk factors
      
Factors that may increase the risk of epilepsy are:

• Age. Epilepsy usually occurs in the early ages of the children and after age 65 years, but the same condition can occur at any age.

• Gender. More men than women at risk of developing epilepsy.

• Note the family. If you have a record of epilepsy in the family, you may have an increased risk of having a seizure.

• Head injury. These injuries are responsible for many cases of epilepsy. You can reduce the risk by always using a seat belt when driving and using a helmet when riding a bike, skiing, biking or doing other activities at risk of head injury.

• Stroke and other vascular diseases. It can cause damage to the brain that trigger epilepsy. You can take several steps to reduce the risk of these diseases, including is the limit for consuming alcohol and avoid smoking, eating a healthy diet and exercise constantly.

• Infection of the brain. Infections such as meningitis, causing inflammation of the brain or spinal cord and cause an increased risk of epilepsy.

• Convulsions prolonged by the time the children. High fever when the children for a long time sometimes associated with convulsions for a long time and epilepsy at the time later. Especially for those with a family history records with epilepsy.