A seizure is single occurrence of uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain, usually for short time span. It can cause numerous signs and symptoms like convulsions, thought disturbances, loss of consciousness etc.

Seizure a symptom of another disease(s) said Dr Qaisar Ahmed; for example:

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of recurrent unprovoked seizures and is one type of seizure disorder.

In epilepsy, a convulsion is a sudden, violent irregular movement of a limb of the body caused by involuntary contraction of muscles usually associated with epilepsy and/or toxic agents.

A seizure and a seizure disorder are not the same.

Seizure disorder

A seizure disorder is a medical condition characterized by episodes of uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain, thus producing symptoms that include two or more seizures.

Doctors separate the disorders from each other by their potential causes and their own set of symptoms due to the affected area in the brain.

Types and symptoms

There are about 40 different types of named seizure disorders. An example of how they are given names may give insight as to how their symptoms differ. For example:

• Simple partial seizure disorders differ from person to person depending upon the part of the brain affected.
• Benign Rolandic epilepsy in children causes tongue twitching and may interfere with speech and cause drooling.
• Catamenial epilepsy refers to seizures that occur in relation to the menstrual cycle.
• Atonic seizures cause symptoms like falling usually not associated with loss of consciousness.
• Absence seizures cause a short loss of consciousness with little or no symptoms.
• Clonic seizures cause rhythmic jerks that involve both sides of the body simultaneously.
• Tonic seizures cause a stiffening of the muscles.
• Febrile seizures usually occur in children between 6 months and 5 years of age. They are common in toddlers.

All of the seizure disorders fit into these three seizure types:

1. Generalized seizure result in loss of consciousness.

• Motor: Grand mal seizures (also called tonic-clonic with muscle jerks or spasms) and have signs and symptoms of stiffness of muscles (tonic), relaxed muscles (atonic), muscles that cause sporadic short jerking of body or limbs (myoclonic), and repetitive shaking or jerking of the body (clonic).
• Non-motor (absence): Symptoms include staring into space, sometimes with eye blinking.

2. Partial or focal seizure result in either no loss of consciousness or confusion for a few minutes.

• Aware: Twitching and/or sensation change.
• Impaired awareness: No loss of consciousness, but patient become confused for a few minutes.

3. Unknown onset seizure

• Unclassified: It may share questionable features of generalized and/or focal seizure.
• Motor: Involving musculature.
• Non-motor: Involving awareness.

Signs and symptoms

They seizure types are differ from each other by some changes in the symptoms they produce (it is beyond the scope of this article to describe all types of seizure disorders).

Some symptoms of seizure disorders may include:

1. Convulsions.
2. Eye blinking.
3. The lips may slightly jerk and move.
4. Sudden loss of muscle tone.
5. The head drops suddenly.
6. The person cries out.
7. The person falls to the ground.
8. Changes in tastes or smells.
9. Biting the tongue.
10. The person cannot answer questions.
11. Thought disturbances.
12. Eye rolling.
13. The person involuntarily urinates or has a bowel movement.

Daily activities

Until seizure is controlled, patient should not do activities where loss of consciousness could be life-threatening. For example, avoid:

• Driving.
• Swimming.
• Climbing.
• Operating power tools.
• Taking a bath in a bathtub.

How long do Seizure last?

• Although most seizure stop spontaneously after several minutes (average is about 1- 2 minutes), there are conditions that may cause brain damage and/or life-threatening situations due to seizures.
• Status epilepticus (seizure lasting 5 or more minutes or if there is more than one seizure within five minutes) is a medical emergency.

Allopathic treatment for Seizure

In emergency intravenous injection of alazopram for instant relaxation.

• If you know the cause or triggers of your patient’s seizure or seizure disorder (such as alcohol intake or cocaine use, low blood sugar, encephalitis, side effect of an allopathic drug etc), say your patient to stop that triggering drug, food, drink etc, and/or treat any underlying medical conditions.
• For some patients, brain surgery may eliminate seizures by removing the epileptic focus the brain tissue.
• Vagus nerve stimulation is another potential way to prevent some seizure (s).
• However, none of these allopathic treatments provides 100% prevention. In addition, it is difficult to prevent seizure caused by birth defects, injuries, strokes, or tumors.

Homeopathic treatment for Seizure

According to Homeopathic theory, treat the disease itself not the symptoms; that’s why every patient has his/her own treatment and treatment duration. Almost all seizure and /or epilepsy patient can find their absolutely normal lifestyle with Homeopathic treatment in very short time period without any lifelong medications and of course without any surgeries.

Here are few of medicines, which are in my (Dr Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS) experience for different types of seizures are the best option:

Cicuta Maculata

Cicuta Maculata is a very effective homeopathic medicine for epilepsy where convulsions are marked by violent, body distortions, widely dilated pupils. Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat, horrific backward bending of the spine, face turn blue and trigger a locked jaw, bloody foam from nose and mouth. Every muscle in the body in powerful clonic spasm. Body and extremities cold. Head injuries. Dizziness. Head hot. Nausea and vomiting; frothy, glairy fluid. Worms. Seizure.

Cicuta Virosa

Bladder paralysis. Cancer. Catalepsy. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Attacks of semi-lateral cephalalgia, with nausea, semi-lateral headache. Coccygodynia. Vertigo, and staggering, to the extent of falling. Giddiness, with falling forward. Concussions. Convulsions. Eczema. Seizure. Epilepsy. Epithelioma. Pupils either much contracted or dilated. Suspension of the sight, with vertigo, on walking. Look fixed, sometimes from a sort of absence of mind. Facial eruption. Pallor and coldness of the face, with coldness of the hands. Hiccough. Hysteria. Suspicion and mistrust. Mania, with dancing, laughing, and ridiculous gestures. Thinks himself a young child. Impetigo. Meningitis. Myelitis. Numbness. Esophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Psoriasis. Puerperal convulsions. Screaming. Strabismus. Stuttering. Tetanus. Trismus. Waking, weeping on. State of insensibility and immobility, with loss of consciousness and of strength. Attacks of catalepsy, with relaxation of all the muscles, and absence of respiration.

Agaricus Muscarious

Blepharospasm. Encephalomalacia (brain softening). Bunion. Chilblains. Chorea. Coldness. Cough. Cramp. Delirium tremens. Great loquacity: sings, talks, but does not answer questions. Morose, self-willed, stubborn, slow in learning to walk and talk. Enteric fever. Seizure. Epilepsy (with great exertion of strength). Vertigo, with impulse to fall backward. The bright light of the sun instantly produces a dizziness, so as to occasion falling. General paralysis. Hyperpyrexia. Meningitis. Myopia. Neuralgia. Numbness. Nystagmus. Phthisis. Rheumatism. Sacrum, pains in. Sebaceous tumors. Sexual excess, effects of. Spinal Irritation. Spleen, affections of. Starting. Stitch inside. Tic Convulsive. Brownish spots (like flies) before the eyes. Black motes before the eyes. Myopia. Diplopia. Muscular asthenopia; nystagmus; squint. Clonic spasms.

Cuprum Aceticum

Apoplexy. Brain affections. Memory weak; brain functions decreased. Absent-minded. Fixed ideas. Brow ague. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Cholera Asiatica. Chorea. Seizure. Maniacal talk; wakes screaming and scolding; tries to escape. sudden indistinct and double vision (paralysis of abducens nerve). Fear of falling. Vertigo with stupefaction; evacuation of bowels. Violent cephalalgia, with thirst and violent colic. Diarrhea. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Hallucinations. Mania. Maniacal talk; wakes screaming and scolding; tries to escape. Hydrocephalus. Measles. Paralyses. Scarlatina. Inflammation of brain. Tetanic condition of jaws. Strabismus. Tapeworm. Uremia. Whooping-cough.

Cuprum Arsenicosum

Cholera. Face haggard; expression of great suffering. Violent twitching and jerking of muscles. Cholerine. Chorea. Vertigo, confusion of ideas. Diarrhea. Enteralgia. Paralysis (left side). Seizure.  Tremulousness of whole body, very noticeable on attempting to walk. Quivering, impossible to control. Great prostration Uterine neuralgia. Vomiting.

Cuprum Metallicum

Chlorosis. Cholera. Chorea. Convulsions. Cough. Cramps. Croup. Cyanosis. Dentition. Dyspnea. Emissions. Seizure. Epilepsy. Melancholy with attacks of extreme anguish. Eruptions. Erysipelas. Fainting. Convulsive laughter. Incoherent, delirious talk. Mildness, alternating with obstinacy. Gastric disturbance. Gout. Hematemesis. Dementia. Loss of sense and thought. Hysteria. Headache, in consequence of an epileptic attack. Inflammations. Larynx spasm. Spasmodic distortion of facial muscles. Mania. Measles. Meningitis. Neuralgia. Palpitation. Paralysis. Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Ringworm. Sleeplessness. Spasms, spasm in the jaw. Spinal irritation.

Artemisia Vulgaris

Best medicine in epileptic conditions, and convulsive diseases of childhood. Petit Mal Epilepsy which are characterized by staring into space, leaning forwards or backward, and stopping a sentence abruptly. It also addresses the fear that triggers epileptic attacks. Epilepsy without aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after masturbation. Several convulsions close together. Somnambulism. Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning.

Oenanthe Crocata

Epileptiform convulsions; worse, during menstruation and pregnancy. Puerperal eclampsia; uremic convulsions. Complete unconsciousness with terrible convulsions. Epilepsy after nonappearance of menses in young girls, worse at the time when menses should have appeared. There is vomiting, tympanites and semi priapism during the attack. The face is swollen and red with frothing of the mouth. Pains all over head, dizzy. Seizure. Sudden and complete unconsciousness. Furious delirium, giddiness. Convulsions; opisthotonos.

Stramonium

Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking. Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming. Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits. Rapid changes from joy to sadness. Seizure.  Violent and lewd. Delusions about his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing. Religious mania. Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and company. Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms. Delirium, with desire to escape.

Bufo Rana

Acts on the nervous system and skin. Uterine symptoms marked. Lymphangitis of septic origin. Symptoms of paralysis agitans. Epileptic attacks occur when patient sleep. Seizure. Convulsive seizures occur during sleep at night, more or less connected with derangements of the sexual sphere, seem to come within the range of this remedy. Such epileptic attacks are accompanied by experiencing an aura in the genital regions. Seizures during menstruation. Sad, restless. Propensity to bite. Howling; impatient; nervous; imbecile. Desire for solitude. Feeble-minded.

Kali Bromatum

General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholia, senselessness of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis. Suicidal mania with tremulousness. Mental dullness, and slowness of expression. Epilepsy (in patients with salt-free diet). Mind profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; religious depression; delusions of conspiracies against him. Night terrors. Horrid illusions. Active delirium.

Hyoscyamus

Some epileptic fits are followed by a deep sleep. Perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned. Very suspicious. Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania uncovers body; jealous, foolish. Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything. Seizure. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor, fidgeting with bedclothes, fidgeting with fingers, and muscular twitching. Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed, spasmodic closing of lids.

Belladonna

Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. Hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis). Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Seizure. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Exophthalmic goiter. Corresponds to the symptoms of “airsickness” in aviators. No thirst, anxiety or fear. Violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Thyroid toxemia. Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. Pupils dilated. Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmos. Ocular illusions.

Nux Vomica

The typical Nux patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable, sensitive to all impressions. Ugly, malicious. Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc. Does not want to be touched. Time passes too slowly. Even the least ailment affects her greatly. Disposed to reproach others. Sullen, fault-finding. Over sensitiveness. Headache in the sunshine. Photophobia. Seizure.

Hypericum Perforatum

The great remedy for injuries to nerves. Lockjaw. Epilepsy due to trauma. Seizure

Nattum Sulphurcum

Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania. Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to. Vertigo. Effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental troubles arising therefrom. Dreams of running water.

Plumbum Metallicum

Epilepsy due to tumors in the brain. Delirium, coma and convulsions. Hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Progressive muscular atrophy. Seizure. Infantile paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Excessive and rapid emaciation. Bulbar paralysis. Important in peripheral affections. The points of attack for Plumbum are the neurexins and the anterior horns. Symptoms of multiple sclerosis, posterior spinal sclerosis. Contractions and boring pain. All the symptoms of acute. Nephritis with amaurosis and cerebral symptoms.

Zincum Metallicum

Cerebral depression. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Convulsions, with pale face and no heat. Anemia with profound prostration. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Repeats everything said to… Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid. Paresis. Feels as if he would fall to left side. Seizure. Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Convulsions, with pale face.

Ketogenic Diet

One of the oldest treatments for epilepsy is the classic ketogenic diet, which involves consuming high-fat foods and very few carbohydrates.

Researchers have found that a “classic” ketogenic diet can reduce or eliminate Seizure in children and adults. The diet has been used for about 100 years for people with epilepsy. It is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet that helps our body produce ketones. People who have high ketones are better able to control their seizures.

P. S: This article is only for doctors having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy, for learning purpose(s).

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Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.

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