what do u mean by epilepsy or seizure?

Answer 1

Oh! You are the one whose neighbour had an attack, right? Well
epilepsy is due to uncrontrolled activity of the brain resulting into seizures / fits.

Epilepsy happens to anybody, regardless of age. External sensory stimuli, prenatal injuries, inflammation or infection of the brain, etc can lead to such an attack.

Some of the symptoms include,
Fainting, dizziness, short violent movements of limbs, loss of memory, headache and many more.

Generally there are three types of epilepsy. One of these lead to foamy salivation in the mouth. Tongue or cheek biting is quite common sometimes.

Answer 2

Epilepsy and seizure are often used interchangeably but neither is a particularly descriptive term. Seizures may be thought of as generalized or localized (such as a jerk in 1 leg only) and they may be thought of as affecting the level of consciousness or movement. 'Absence' seizures (petit mal) are generalized seizures where the person 'tunes out' for seconds or minutes. Tonic clonic seizures (grand mal) are generalized seizures involving jerking movements in the arms and legs.

Answer 3

Epilepsy is disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness which is what it sounds like what happened to the guy in your neighborhood. Having suffered from epilepsy since I was a teenager I know whereof I speak. It has been explained to me by doctors that it is like an electrical storm in the brain.

Answer 4

my husband has epilepsy. I have witnessed him having seizures in the past. Shaking and making some noise. They don't last long and when its over he is very sleepy. He loses time. He doesn't remember them, and they don't hurt unless he becomes injured during an episode. As in biting himself, or falling on the floor.

Answer 5

You people who have epilpesy have to find out why you got it and go back and start with any virus or high fever that you had in your lifetime. When I was 2 I had spinal menigitis and a high fever with that of 104 and they found a scar on my brain from that and that scar was pressing on my brain and causing me to have all these seizures. I had the brain surjery 6 yrs ago they removed that scar and heve been seizure free.

Answer 6

Seizure occurs due to abnormal discharge from a site in the brain which may manifest as motor abnormality-convulsions, sensory abnormalities-paraesthesia, autonomic instability-hypotension or abnormal behaviour.
Seizures can occur due to head injury, poisoning, electolyte imbalance, meningitis or may be idiopathic i.e. no definite cause.

Epilepsy is a condition in which the patient has 2 or more episodes of unexplained i.e idiopathic seizures.

Answer 7

Uncontrollable actions, like all of a sudden you where electrocuted.
Something to do with the Brain shortening out for a moment. They are serious all of them.