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Epilepsy can develop at any age.

In this article:

What is epilepsy?

Symptoms

Causes

Diagnosis

Effect on your life

How Chemist Online can help

Treatment

Advice & Support

What is epilepsy?
There are several types of epilepsy. This article will focus upon generalised seizures – the type of seizure most people associate with epilepsy (where abnormal electrical activity in the brain creates the onset of a range of symptoms).

Symptoms
When a person suffers an epileptic generalised seizure they:

Fall down

Lose consciousness

Suffer body stiffening or begin to jerk uncontrollably

Become incontinent

Aggressively bite their tongue

Often, after a generalised seizure (which usually occurs in one short burst of a few minutes), the person feels sleepy or overwhelmingly tired, depending upon the severity of the seizure.

Causes
Despite worldwide medical research, as yet it is still unclear exactly what causes epileptic seizures. What is known is that sudden abnormal bursts of electric activity in the brain occur without any prior warning and with no evident trigger – resulting in the aforementioned symptoms and behaviours. However, some experts strongly suggest that epilepsy may develop as a result of some sort of brain damage or a brain injury.

Other suggested causes include:

Alcohol or drug abuse

Meningitis

Brain tumours

Also, some people may have a genetic predisposition to developing epilepsy. This means that there is a family history of epilepsy which may have been passed down.

Diagnosis
If you think you may have suffered an epileptic seizure, arrange an appointment with your GP. After taking your medical history, a diagnosis will be made based upon your description of your seizures – what happens, how often they occur, any suspected triggers, etc.

To establish a confirmed diagnosis you may be asked to undergo a brain scan (an MRI scan or CT scan), and/or an EEG (Electroencephalogram) where the electrical activity in your brain will be recorded.

Based upon the results of the scans an appropriate treatment will be recommended to you.

Effect on your life
To avoid the sudden onset of an epileptic seizure the best thing you can do is to try to avoid triggers, such as: stress and/or anxiety; sleep deprivation (e.g., due to working long hours; disturbed sleep due to some other emotional or environmental factor); strobe lighting; video or computer games which display sudden bright flashing images; and also having a low blood sugar level as a result of missing meals.

Treatment
Although epilepsy cannot be cured as such, it may be possible for your GP or a specialist to prescribe stabilising medication which reduces the frequency of seizures.

Where epileptic generalised seizures are particularly severe you may be asked to consider surgery (where a small part of the brain is removed).

How Chemist Online can help
Through this website we have a range of products available to buy which can help you to monitor your blood glucose levels.

www.chemistonline.co.uk

Advice & Support
Epilepsy Action
Helpline: 0808 800 5050
Website: www.epilepsy.org.uk

National Society for Epilepsy
Helpline: 01494 601 400
Website: www.epilepsynse.org.uk

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Dysentery is a common disease of the bowels attended with normal bleeding and mucous stools. The patient of dysentery does not feel eager and feels pathetic in the beginning. There are common stools marked by irregular pain in the stomach and passing of a white fatty substance called mucous by which the occurrence of diarrheic stools enhance.

There are two types of dysentery and the first is Bacillary dysentery. The patient of bacillary dysentery feels the urge for passing the stools frequency. These stools are clear by a bloody flux. The second type of dysentery is Amoebic dysentery. Amoebic is caused by the germ entamoeba histolytia. This germs gets into the intestines with filthy food and causes swelling. It slowly turns into constant and then it is not easy to treat.

Dysentery is mainly caused by increase of too much of stool in the intestines. There are so many effective natural treatment of dysentery through foods that you can mainly used to avoid amoebic dysentery. Some of these natural foods are discussed below:

1. Bel: Ripe bel syrup give a flourishing treatment for dysentery along with mucous. It clears the bowel efficiently.

2. Lemon: Drinking lemon juice with fresh water 3 times in a day is useful in dysentery. Taking lemon with milk is the best natural treatment of dysentery through foods.

3. Wheat: Grind aniseed, mix up the powder in water, strain it and use it to squeeze wheat flour. Make the chapattis and eat them during mealtime. It is effective natural foods for the people who are suffering from dysentery and diarrhea.

4. Black pepper: Consuming of black pepper is useful for patients of dysentery

5. Lady finger: Eating lady’s finger vegetable is a useful treatment of dysentery through foods. It eliminates resistance from the intestines.

6. Basil: The utilization of basil leaves mixed with sugar helps to heal dysentery.

7. Gram: Immerse 2 handful of gram shell for the night in water into a clay pot. Strain it in the next morning and drink the water.

8. Cumin seeds: Roast grinds cumin seeds and mixes it with one teaspoon honey and takes it every day after meals. Taking of butter milk with cumin seeds powder is also beneficial foods for the treatment of constant dysentery and disorders of the appetite.

9. Harad: Cook small harad and aniseed in clarified butter, grind it, mix up the sugar candy powder and take one teaspoon every day with hot water.

10. Tea: Tea includes polyphenol which devastates the germ that caused to dysentery. The patients who are suffering from dysentery can drink tea.

11. Water: Water is an effective natural treatment of dysentery. Drinking of one glass of hot water regularly after meals is good and effective treatment for patients of amoebiasis.

The natural treatment of dysentery through foods tends to expel intestines and cleans the stomach. Therefore we should help nature in this respect.

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