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  2. Epilepsy in children - Wikipedia

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    Epilepsy is more common among children than adults, affecting about 6 out of 1000 US children that are between the age of 0 to 5 years old. [2] The epileptic seizures can be of different types depending on the part of the brain that was affected, seizures are classified in 2 main types partial seizure or generalized seizure. [1]

  3. Childhood absence epilepsy - Wikipedia

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    A typical absences seizure usually last between 10 and 30 seconds. [3] Mild automatisms could be seen during the course of the absence and stop with the end of the absence seizure. When an EEG is recorded during the typical absence seizure, a 3 Hz spike-and-wave discharges is recorded starting with the start of the arrest of the activity. At ...

  4. Absence seizure - Wikipedia

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    However, if an individual suffers an absence seizure while driving or operating dangerous machinery, a fatal accident may occur. [5] Absence seizures affect between 0.7 and 4.6 per 100,000 in the general population and 6 to 8 per 100,000 in children younger than 15 years. Childhood absence seizures account for 10% to 17% of all absence seizures.

  5. Epilepsy syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Syndromes are characterized into 4 groups based on epilepsy type: [1] a. Generalized onset epilepsy syndromes. These epilepsy syndromes have only generalized-onset seizures and include both the idiopathic generalized epilepsies (specifically childhood absence epilepsy, juvenile absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and epilepsy with generalized tonic- clonic seizures alone), as well as ...

  6. 12-year-old runs to get help after mom has seizure while driving

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    A 12-year-old boy helped save his mother when he flagged down a police officer after his mother experienced a seizure while driving and fell into a body of water. Newly released police bodycam ...

  7. Status epilepticus - Wikipedia

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    Nonconvulsive status epilepticus is a relatively long duration change in a person's level of consciousness without large-scale bending and extension of the limbs due to seizure activity. [11] It is of two main types with either prolonged complex partial seizures or absence seizures. [11] Up to a quarter of cases of SE are nonconvulsive. [11]

  8. I slept with a baby monitor for safety - AOL

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    If I went a year, it would never happen again. The seizures came back. Two years and 10 days later, we were on spring break skiing in Colorado. It happened again. This time, my mom witnessed my ...

  9. 'You crushed it': How a 7-year-old Gardens boy saved his mom ...

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    The 7-year-old rescued his mom from an epileptic seizure one night in October while his dad was nearly 200 miles across the state on a business trip. ... Dani even had a seizure in the car as he ...