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CONVULSIONS, the pathological condition of body associated with abnormal, violent and spasmodic contractions and relaxations of the muscles, taking the form of a fit.
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ConvulsionsDefinition: Convulsions are when a person's body shakes rapidly and uncontrollably. During convulsions, the person's muscles contract and relax repeatedly.
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Convulsions are when a person's body shakes rapidly and uncontrollably. During convulsions, the person's muscles contract and relax repeatedly.
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The convulsions occur because the electrical systems in the brain have not yet matured sufficiently to cope with the stress of a high temperature. Who's affected?
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Convulsions Tremors Home Care Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
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ConvulsionsHome Care DO NOT make the person throw up. Call Poison Control for appropriate treatment.
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ConvulsionsSymptoms for organophosphate or carbamate poisoning: Heart and blood ...
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convulsions Also known as seizures, fits or attacks. Can be a side effect of medications or drugs.
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If convulsions begin, medicine will be injected into your veins. You will be watched closely. Restraints may be used to help prevent injuries. Sedating drugs may be given if you have hallucinations and delusions.
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What are Convulsions?
What are the Symptoms of a Nervous Breakdown?
How Does the Nervous System Work?
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Eclamptic convulsions look no different from epileptic fits. The mother is gripped by synchronised, repetitive, jerky and sometimes quite violent movements involving muscle groups in the eyes, jaw, neck and limbs.
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Seizures ( convulsions). Sluggishness or problems thinking clearly, such as being forgetful or easily confused. Slow and irregular heartbeats or troubled breathing.
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convulsions ( seizures) stiff neck inability to look at bright lights double vision difficulty walking problems with speech or hearing difficulty moving an arm or leg loss of sensation anywhere in the body sudden personality changes ...
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Focal seizures -- Convulsions brought about by a disease process or injury to an identifiable part of the brain.
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It is signaled by the occurrence of one or more convulsions, not attributable to other cerebral conditions such as epilepsy, in a patient with preeclampsia.
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Alcohol and other nervous system depressants, such as barbiturates and narcotics, taken in sufficiently large doses, can result in coma and convulsions.
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Excessive drooling and convulsions become evident. Blindness and head enlargement set in by the second year. "Fatal by age 2 or 3 years" today would be modified to "fatal by age 5." After age 2, total constant nursing care is needed.
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In such cases, the clinical picture is characterized by convulsions, delirium, and a lack of long-term memory. In other patients, the pathological process involves the medulla (ie, encephalo myelitis).
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Jackie, whose own son was hospitalised due to convulsions 10 days after receiving his MMR vaccine in 1992, remains unconvinced about the safety of the vaccine. "My own feeling is that parents have a right to be concerned," she said.
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seizures or convulsions behavior changes including irritability blood or clear fluid draining from the ears or nose one pupil (dark area in the center of the eye) looks larger than the other eye deep cut or laceration in the scalp ...
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But when those cells, called neurons, misfire or signal abnormally, a person can experience a number of sensations, emotions, behaviors, convulsions, muscle spasms and even loss of consciousness during what's called a seizure.
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Although high fevers may bring on convulsions or delirium, generally, it is not how high the temperature is, but how rapidly the temperature rose that causes a convulsion. What are the signs that indicate fever? If symptoms of an illness are present: ...
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This is because the apparent severity of the convulsions on the outside does not necessarily reflect what is happening in the brain - more severe disturbances in brain activity do not always produce larger seizures.
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Some children have seizures or convulsions when they have fevers. Febrile seizures occur in 3% to 5% of otherwise healthy children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Toddlers are the most commonly affected.
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Anticonvulsant treatment during pregnancy should be chosen so as to minimise the occurrence of convulsions. Anticonvulsant therapy is associated with an increased risk of neural tube defects.
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Febrile seizures are convulsions that can occur in children with fever. What is going on in the body?
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A disorder of the heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent pulse and vertigo and fainting with or without convulsions. In this condition, the normal heartbeat passing from the upper chambers of the heart to the lower chambers is interrupted.
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The doctor can prescribe medicine to prevent further convulsions. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Instructions for the seizure patient: ...
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to low levels of sugar supplying the brain - Headache, dizziness, blurred vision, difficulty concentrating, poor coordination, confusion, weakness or fainting, tingling sensations in the lips or hands, confused speech, abnormal behavior, convulsions, ...
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is a toxin produced by the mould Aspergillus flavus commonly found in peanuts, cottonseed, soybeans, wheat, barley, sorghum and nuts such as pistachios, almonds and cacao. Symptoms of poisoning include weight loss, loss of co-ordination, convulsions ...
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 See also: Convulsion, Seizure, Seizures, Infection, Vomiting
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