💜 4 Interesting Facts About Epilepsy 💡

Meet Alex, a TikTok star who not only dazzles with her amazing content but also leverages her platform to raise epilepsy awareness. 🌟 Let's explore some interesting facts!

💜 There are over 40 unique types of epilepsy
💜 Every epileptic experiences their condition in a different way
💜 Every 1 in 26 Americans are diagnosed with epilepsy
💜 The color associated with epilepsy is purple

[RobertWWD]

I was diagnosed with Epilepsy when I was 2.
I had a Brain Tumor surgically removed when I was 8.
24 almost 25 years Seizure free.

[DcolombN]

I had epilepsy for 4 years and it was getting worse but God took it away❤

[anibellahlstrom]

Epilepsy
ABOUT EPILEPSY





You may be asking yourself what is epilepsy? Well to answer epilepsy is a brain disease that affects the brain. It can have a whole body physical event.

WHAT SEIZURES ARE
I’m going to talk about seizures but some of you may not know what a seizure is. A seizure is Uncontrolled jerking, loss of consciousness, blank stares, or other symptoms caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

WHAT HAPPENS
Epilepsy gives seizures which can sometimes cause shaking or loss of consciousness you may even stay awake but you might forget stuff about you yourself and your life even you could just have a blank stare


WHY DOES EPILEPSY HAPPEN
Epilepsy is a excessive and abnormal amount of brain cell activity. One person can have lots of triggers here are some triggers for seizures

* flashing lights
* sleep deprivation
* stress
* blood sugar
* illness
* hormones
* high caffeine
* some foods


AGE
Epilepsy can be diagnosed at any age you can be diagnosed with it when you just born you can also get diagnosed at 90 it can be any age


HOW TO SLOW DOWN SEIZURES
Lots of people with epilepsy take medication to slow down seizures some may have surgeries but those don’t stop it 100% of the time. There are seizures called breakthrough seizures that happen even after taking medication most of the time breakthrough seizures are because of hormone changes or growing because your body is changing and may need a higher dose of medication.

STOPING A SEIZURE WHILE HAPPENING
There is a thing called a nasal spray which stop seizures within minutes


LAST
If you ever see someone shaking having a seizure don’t try to give them drinks or food what to do is lay them on these side so they don’t choke on there saliva make sure if the seizure is more than five minutes contact emergency services if a seizure goes longer then five minutes it can cause permanent brain damage.


Thanks for being respectful listeners and I hope this educated you about seizures

[Thea-dora]

I’ve got abecent seizures aka peti mal

[Slay_hard_shrek]

Yea seizures and epilepsy can’t get treatment is stays permanent because I can cause your brain to not function properly like others as a example brains are connected to your body that helps you think see and hear without you brain it will not work properly but if you have epilepsy your brain won’t heal and doctors will give you medication so it doesn’t get worsen because the brain will be possibly damaged and can’t heal because there lots of types of seizures can happen like foam coming out of mouth blinking uncontrollably shaking collapsing it can cause stress which won’t help work the body problem mostly the brain and seizures might get worse every 5 muinutes