Hot water epilepsy: A rare form of reflex epilepsy

Hot water epilepsy is a form of reflex epilepsy in childhood. We report two children from Saudi Arabia, who presented with seizures following pouring hot water on their head, while bathing. They were not treated by anti-epileptic medication. By decreasing the temperature of the water used for bathin...

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Autor principal: Syed, Riazahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21808513
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.71724
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description Hot water epilepsy is a form of reflex epilepsy in childhood. We report two children from Saudi Arabia, who presented with seizures following pouring hot water on their head, while bathing. They were not treated by anti-epileptic medication. By decreasing the temperature of the water used for bathing, the seizures were avoided to a large extent in them. This form of epilepsy is reported to be seldom present in various countries but there are no records of its presence in Saudi Arabia.
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spelling pubmed-31393592011-08-01 Hot water epilepsy: A rare form of reflex epilepsy Syed, Riazahmed J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Hot water epilepsy is a form of reflex epilepsy in childhood. We report two children from Saudi Arabia, who presented with seizures following pouring hot water on their head, while bathing. They were not treated by anti-epileptic medication. By decreasing the temperature of the water used for bathing, the seizures were avoided to a large extent in them. This form of epilepsy is reported to be seldom present in various countries but there are no records of its presence in Saudi Arabia. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3139359/ /pubmed/21808513 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.71724 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Hot water epilepsy: A rare form of reflex epilepsy
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title_short Hot water epilepsy: A rare form of reflex epilepsy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139359/
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