Sentences with word «epilepsy»

It's not usually a problem unless you have a dog with epilepsy in which case you will want to avoid rosemary which seems to trigger episodes in some dogs.

It just stood out as especially significant across multiple forms of epilepsy in patients.

On average, there will be one child with epilepsy in every primary school and five in every secondary school.

Not only have ketogenic diets been successfully used as a treatment for epilepsy for nearly a century, but it also has many potential health benefits even healthy people can use.

Even mothers who must take daily medication for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, or high blood pressure may be able to breastfeed.

About 30 percent of epilepsy patients don't respond to drugs to prevent seizures.

Understanding how these shields work will help researchers eventually develop a new class of drugs for treating epilepsy, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

A child may suffer from epilepsy so severe that the only relief doctors can offer is to open up the skull and cut out the entire hemisphere in which the seizures start.

As a result, puppies from puppy mills sometimes come with congenital and hereditary conditions including epilepsy, heart disease, kidney disease, and respiratory disorders.

In this study, seven people with severe epilepsy were hospitalized for a monitoring procedure that tries to identify where in the brain seizures originate.

The diagnosis of primary epilepsy is unfortunately a diagnosis of exclusion after elimination of other causes.

In later experiments, she investigated whether the treatment was also effective in models of generalized childhood epilepsy caused by genetic mutations.

I absolutely love the purple pumpkins, as they would be perfect for the purple pumpkin project and for epilepsy awareness month.

The procedure can be considered for children who do not respond to medication, can not tolerate or do not respond to the ketogenic diet, and are not a candidate for epilepsy surgery.

A dog that has experienced a seizure caused by epilepsy should never be used for breeding.

That's what it's like with canine epilepsy.

This consultation may occur at a specialized epilepsy center.

It can also help improve certain health conditions, like epilepsy in children.

Emerging research also shows that a ketogenic diet can be very helpful for drug resistant epilepsy, especially in children.

The diet, though unconventional, is effective at controlling epilepsy.

Rare mutations in the corresponding genes cause epilepsy and intellectual disability.

And, finding a genetic marker in dogs can lead the way to making similar breakthroughs in human epilepsy research.

There are many people with epilepsy who have been declined or are paying way too much for their life insurance.

What we can say about epilepsy treatment in dogs is that it is in most cases outpatient.

Recently he told me that my great - grandfather had died from epilepsy at a young age, filling in one more piece of my family history.

Some drugs can help control seizures, but there is no drug to prevent or cure epilepsy.

But there could easily be hundreds of epilepsy genes, he says, many of which may not be affecting potassium channels.

To answer that question, he says, researchers will need to perform a head - to - head clinical trial comparing the top available epilepsy medications in children.

Dogs with inherited epilepsy will continue to have seizures at intervals.

The first step to managing pediatric epilepsy is accurate diagnosis.

Most pets have their first epilepsy seizures between 1 and 5 five years of age.

«My idea of what epilepsy therapy should look like is we do the same mapping to figure out the seizure focus and then we treat the focus itself,» she said.

If one is found, the disease will be called secondary epilepsy.

The ketogenic diet continues to be very successfully used in patients with epilepsy when drug therapy previously failed.

Those who use the ketogenic diet for therapeutic purposes such as managing epilepsy or cancer may want to maintain or even gain weight.

This may provide a potential explanation for why some children with absence epilepsy may have continued deficits in cognitive performance, despite successful treatment of their seizures.

If people with focal epilepsy don't respond well to standard drugs, they are often offered surgery to remove the part of the brain where the problems start.

«This could be a game - changer in epilepsy diagnosis and could make precision medicine part of standard clinical practice,» she said.

Her research interests are directed at improving outcomes in early onset epilepsy, which includes the role of early surgical intervention and the ketogenic diet.

Long term, this research provides a molecular target for developing the first drugs to prevent epilepsy.

People with epilepsy also had a greater likelihood of experiencing domestic violence and sexual abuse than the general population.

Level 4 is the highest level of specialized epilepsy care available.

Level 4 centers have the professional expertise and facilities to provide the highest level of medical and surgical evaluation and treatment for patients with complex epilepsy.

A relationship between epilepsy and heightened religious experiences has been recognized since at least the 19th century.

Even some of them with epilepsy experienced fewer seizures.

It's not uncommon at all to hear of or see service dogs as they assist those with PTSD, autism, inability to see / hear or even epilepsy or diabetes.

Did you know that the keto diet was initially developed as a treatment for epilepsy before any medication was available?

The breed, age and the history may suggest a genetic basis for primary epilepsy if there is a familial history of seizures.