can you die from a seizure?
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If seizures can't be stopped or repeated seizures occur one right after another, permanent injury or death can occur. People with epilepsy can also die from problems that occur during or after a seizure, such as inhaling vomit. This problem can be prevented if the person is turned onto one side as soon as possible.
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While we haven't come across reported deaths of people dying by holding in their sneezes, technically it's not impossible to die from holding in a sneeze. Some injuries from holding in a sneeze can be very serious, such as ruptured brain aneurysms, ruptured throat, and collapsed lungs.
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If your child has previously had seizures, call 911 if the seizure lasts more than 5 minutes or is for some reason very alarming to you and you're worried for your child's safety. If your child is breathing normally and the seizure lasts just a few minutes, you can wait until it lets up to call your doctor.
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Seizures can result from severe imbalances in electrolytes due to dehydration. Dehydration can reduce the amount of blood in the body, which can put strain on the heart and cause shock. Shock is a dangerous decrease in blood pressure, which can be fatal.
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['Stay with the person until the seizure ends and he or she is fully awake. ... ', 'Comfort the person and speak calmly.', 'Check to see if the person is wearing a medical bracelet or other emergency information.', 'Keep yourself and other people calm.']
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EEG is a safe test with no side effects. However, a person with epilepsy may experience a seizure, triggered by the various stimuli used in the procedure, including the flashing lights. (This is not seen as a 'complication' by medical staff, because a seizure during an EEG can greatly help in diagnosis.)
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Isolated, brief seizures are likely to cause negative changes in brain function and possibly loss of specific brain cells. This is not true for all forms of epilepsy, however, and is likely to be highly dependent upon the type of seizure and the specific cause of the epilepsy.
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Avoid holding the person down or restricting their movements. Do not put anything in the person's mouth. Do not offer the person food or water until they are fully alert. Do not give mouth-to-mouth breaths or CPR, because people can normally breathe on their own shortly after the seizure ends.
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Anything that interrupts the normal connections between nerve cells in the brain can cause a seizure. This includes a high fever, high or low blood sugar, alcohol or drug withdrawal, or a brain concussion. But when a child has 2 or more seizures with no known cause, this is diagnosed as epilepsy.
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['keep the person safe from injury or harm, and only move them if they are in danger.', 'if they have fallen, put something soft under their head to protect it.', "allow the seizure to happen, don't restrain or hold them down.", 'stay with them until they have recovered.']
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You may keep having some symptoms even after the seizure activity in your brain has stopped. This is because some symptoms are after-effects of a seizure, like sleepiness, confusion, certain movements or being unable to move, and difficulty talking or thinking normally.
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Reflex anoxic seizures ('RAS') may present, as potentially life threatening events, but these are often preventable. They are most common in preschool children (but can occur in any age) and more so in females.
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The electrical activity in the brain during a seizure can also change our pulse and usually causes an increase in heart rate. However, during some seizures, the heart can slow or even stop temporarily, which is referred to as ictal asystole.
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Most febrile seizures produce no lasting effects. Simple febrile seizures don't cause brain damage, intellectual disability or learning disabilities, and they don't mean your child has a more serious underlying disorder.
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During a seizure, many things may happen. Sufferers may lose the ability to swallow, have difficulty speaking, experience twitching or jerking movements in the body, and even experience convulsions. They may lose consciousness, see flashing lights, experience visual hallucinations, and feel out of body sensations.
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Absence seizures, or petit mal seizures, are brief, usually less than 15 seconds, and they have symptoms that may be barely noticeable. However, loss of consciousness, even for such a short time, can make absence seizures dangerous.
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Immediately after being struck, the disruption the lightning would have caused to your heart's electrical rhythm could result in cardiac arrest, one of the leading causes of death in lightning strike victims. The shock could also cause seizures or respiratory arrest.