Re: Abdominal epilepsy

Posted By CCF MD GS on January 31, 1999 at 10:50:22:

In Reply to: Abdominal epilepsy posted by Arti on January 04, 1999 at 06:31:42:






Sir,
My husband is suffering fron Abdominal epilepsy. In last 3 years he has fainted 4 times following a stomach ache. All the instances were supposedly after he had consumed stale food. He has no convulsions, only he loses conciousness for a minute or so. He can feel it coming. Though his MRI was normal, EEG showed something of epilepsy. He was prescribed Frisium , one tab daily by a neurologist who claimed that a dose of Encorate, 2 tabs twice daily was very harmful as was prescribed by another neurologist.
My Husband got confused and is not taking any medication.
Please tell something about this disease.  Should there be any medication taken or taking care of stomach and diet is sufficient?



        


Thanks for he question. There are case reports of so called abdominal epilepsy. Some patients with temporal lobe seizures will have abnormal abdominal sensations during a seizures. Some types of frontal lobe epilepsy has also questions GI related seizures as a stimulus. If your husband has had alot of pain prior to these events it may be that he actually have a vasovagal event (ie passed out from the discomfort). This could be evaluated by a symcope lab usually run be cardiologists. If he has indeed abnormal EEG's then he may have epilepsy and treatment should be considered. I'm not faamiliar with the medications that you list. Sounds to make like an adhearence to a good diet would work as well as anything though. Good luck
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