Sentences with phrase «experienced by epilepsy»

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Among animist Hmong families, for example, epilepsy was understood as an attack by an evil spirit, but the affected person could become revered as a shaman through these otherworldly experiences.

When patients with epilepsy don't experience enough benefit from current medications, doctors sometimes treat the disorder by surgically removing the area where seizures arise.

After experiencing a similar episode three weeks later, he went to a doctor and learned he had epilepsy, a neurological disorder caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

In addition, patients may benefit from the advanced care provided by epilepsy centers if they continue to have seizures despite treatment with two medications, experience unacceptable side effects or are pregnant or want to become pregnant.

Ketones are used by the body during fasting, and the diet was developed initially based on the observation that people with epilepsy experienced a reduction in their seizures when they did not eat.

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