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Abdominal epilepsy is marked by GI symptoms such as abdominal pain followed by uncontrollable vomiting, usually preceded by lethargy. Lethargy and confusion is the most common neurological symptoms associated with abdominal epilepsy. Other symptoms include generalized tonic-clonic seizures followed by sleep, and unresponsiveness.
Shigellosis. Shigellosis (Historically the disease usually referred to as Dysentery) is an infection of the intestines caused by Shigella bacteria. [1] [3] Symptoms generally start one to two days after exposure and include diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain, and feeling the need to pass stools even when the bowels are empty. [1]
Specialty. Neurology. A generalized tonic–clonic seizure, commonly known as a grand mal seizure or GTCS, [ 1] is a type of generalized seizure that produces bilateral, convulsive tonic and clonic muscle contractions. Tonic–clonic seizures are the seizure type most commonly associated with epilepsy and seizures in general and the most common ...
Mast cell activation syndrome ( MCAS) is a term referring to one of two types of mast cell activation disorder ( MCAD ); the other type is idiopathic MCAD. [ 1] MCAS is an immunological condition in which mast cells inappropriately and excessively release chemical mediators, resulting in a range of chronic symptoms, sometimes including ...
Conversion disorder (CD), or functional neurologic symptom disorder, is a diagnostic category used in some psychiatric classification systems.It is sometimes applied to patients who present with neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, which are not consistent with a well-established organic cause, which cause significant distress, and can be traced back to a ...
Frequency. 40 per 100,000 people per year[2] Status epilepticus(SE), or status seizure, is a medical condition consisting of a single seizurelasting more than 5 minutes, or 2 or more seizures within a 5-minute period without the person returning to normal between them. [3][1]Previous definitions used a 30-minute time limit.[2]
Generalized epilepsy is a form of epilepsy characterised by generalised seizures with no apparent cause. [1] Generalized seizures , as opposed to focal seizures , are a type of seizure that impairs consciousness and distorts the electrical activity of the whole or a larger portion of the brain (which can be seen, for example, on ...
Abdominal aura. Abdominal aura (from Latin abdomen, "belly," and aura, "wind, odor, or gleam of light"), [ 1][ 2] also known as visceral aura and epigastric aura, is a type of somatosensory aura that typically manifests as abdominal discomfort in the form of nausea, malaise, hunger, or pain. Abdominal aura is typically associated with epilepsy ...