seizure

[drrbrts]

Why would a healthy 17 year old girl have a seizure ?

[drrbrts]

Thanks for your answer.
My Granddaughter had the seizure. I wasn't there,but my son and daughter-in-law were with her. She hasn't had an injury.She does have low blood sugar.I read on this sight that this can cause seizures.We will have the other things you mentioned checked out.
Thanks again.

[bhups1]

Hi, age is no barrier for seizures; there are plenty of causes related with fits. Usually in adults or young people seizures are related with epilepsy or non epileptic like psychogenic seizures.

“It can manifest as an alteration in mental state, tonic or clonic movements, convulsions, and various other psychic symptoms. It is caused by a temporary abnormal electrical activity of a group of brain cells. The medical syndrome of recurrent, unprovoked seizures is termed epilepsy, but some seizures may occur in people who do not have epilepsy”. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure

What are the symptoms?  Have any of you seen the seizures while it is happening? In young patients one should rule out history of injury, neurocystecercosis (tape worm infestation), electrolyte imbalance, tuberculosis, lymphoma etc. Investigations like MRI and EEG are useful in diagnosis.