Seizures
Group #3
Period 4
Group members:
Rudy Garcia
Kayla Natalie
Tereci Paris
Joshua Collier
Keysi Coello Seizures are an uncontrolled condition that electrical activity in the brain produces convulsion. These convulsions may be minor physical signs, disturbances, and or a combination of symptoms together. Seizures can be caused by head injuries, tumors in the brain, poisoning of lead, the brain has some sort of maldevelopement, found in genes, infections, fever, or illnesses.
The types of symptoms and the type of seizure found in a person depends on where the abnormality in the electrical activity takes part in the brain, what is the cause to it and factor in the patient. Whether it may be that the patients state of health and the patients age.
Well as you may know there are many different types of seizures.
Type Duration Seizure Symptoms Postictal (post-seizure) Symptoms
Absence (petit mal seizure) 2 to 30 seconds Stare
Eyes fluttering
Automatisms (such as lip smacking, picking at clothes, fumbling) if prolonged Amnesia for seizure events
No confusion
Promptly resumes activity
Generalized Tonic-Clonic (grand mal) 1 to 2 minutes A cry
Fall
Tonicity (rigidity)
Clonicity (jerking)
May have cyanosis Amnesia for seizure events
Confusion
Absence or petit mal seizures are when there are tiny convulsions of the brain that the brains nerve cells communicate with one another and they fire tiny electrical signals. It causes to lose consciousness that is just about 30 seconds or less and you really don’t notice it. It’s like it barely happened. A person suffering from absence seizures just simply will stop speaking or moving they will be spaced out and stare blankly straight ahead and if a question is asked they simply won’t answer the question. Absence seizures in a child are just that the child is simply unaware of what is happening. The child may blink and may stop
Period 4
Group members:
Rudy Garcia
Kayla Natalie
Tereci Paris
Joshua Collier
Keysi Coello Seizures are an uncontrolled condition that electrical activity in the brain produces convulsion. These convulsions may be minor physical signs, disturbances, and or a combination of symptoms together. Seizures can be caused by head injuries, tumors in the brain, poisoning of lead, the brain has some sort of maldevelopement, found in genes, infections, fever, or illnesses.
The types of symptoms and the type of seizure found in a person depends on where the abnormality in the electrical activity takes part in the brain, what is the cause to it and factor in the patient. Whether it may be that the patients state of health and the patients age.
Well as you may know there are many different types of seizures.
Type Duration Seizure Symptoms Postictal (post-seizure) Symptoms
Absence (petit mal seizure) 2 to 30 seconds Stare
Eyes fluttering
Automatisms (such as lip smacking, picking at clothes, fumbling) if prolonged Amnesia for seizure events
No confusion
Promptly resumes activity
Generalized Tonic-Clonic (grand mal) 1 to 2 minutes A cry
Fall
Tonicity (rigidity)
Clonicity (jerking)
May have cyanosis Amnesia for seizure events
Confusion
Absence or petit mal seizures are when there are tiny convulsions of the brain that the brains nerve cells communicate with one another and they fire tiny electrical signals. It causes to lose consciousness that is just about 30 seconds or less and you really don’t notice it. It’s like it barely happened. A person suffering from absence seizures just simply will stop speaking or moving they will be spaced out and stare blankly straight ahead and if a question is asked they simply won’t answer the question. Absence seizures in a child are just that the child is simply unaware of what is happening. The child may blink and may stop