Seizure Causes
Unprovoked seizures are often associated with epilepsy and related seizure disorders. Causes of provoked seizures include: dehydration, sleep deprivation, cavernoma or cavernous malformation is a treatable medical condition that can cause seizures, headaches, and brain hemorrhages. An MRI can quickly confirm or reject this as a cause. Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a treatable medical condition that can cause seizures, headaches, and brain hemorrhages. Head injury may cause non-epileptic post-traumatic seizures or post-traumatic epilepsy, in which the seizures chronically recur. Intoxication with drugs, for example aminophylline or local anaesthetics normal doses of certain drugs that lower the seizure threshold, such as tricyclic antidepressants infection, such as encephalitis or meningitis, Fever leading to febrile convulsions (but see above), Metabolic disturbances, such as hypoglycaemia, hyponatremia or hypoxia, withdrawal from drugs (anticonvulsants, antidepressants, and sedatives such as alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines,)
Seizure Causes
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