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Dehydration and seizures ?

Tue, 10/03/2006 - 10:26
has anyone ever been dehydrated and had seizures and does being dehydrated make your seizures worse? jenn

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Re: Dehydration and seizures ?

Submitted by kristen2 on Sat, 2010-01-09 - 00:56

Hi All,

My boyfriend has had 3 seizures in just over 3 years (roughly a year apart). They are all when he hasn't had much sleep or is dehydrated. Is this epilepsy or just seizures due to dehydration??? Any ideas??

 

Kristen

Hi All,

My boyfriend has had 3 seizures in just over 3 years (roughly a year apart). They are all when he hasn't had much sleep or is dehydrated. Is this epilepsy or just seizures due to dehydration??? Any ideas??

 

Kristen

Re: Dehydration and seizures ?

Submitted by Dalriadic on Mon, 2010-03-29 - 19:36

When the body is down ~10% of the total water it needs, you can have seizures.  I'd suggest you take your boyfriend in to see a specialist and have an EEG done to make sure.

When the body is down ~10% of the total water it needs, you can have seizures.  I'd suggest you take your boyfriend in to see a specialist and have an EEG done to make sure.

Re: Dehydration and seizures ?

Submitted by karyn214 on Fri, 2011-04-29 - 10:03

Hi Chris,

I read your post a week ago and since our conditions sound similar, I decided to try staying hydrated and see what happened. I can't believe the improvement, and I can't believe that in the five years since the epi started, none of my three neurologists mentioned the possibility that the seizures could be triggered by dehydration. My very first seizure took place on an airplane (I thought maybe it was the altitude...) and they always get worse in the summer.

<<warning signs do appear in the form of very mild, simple partial seizures but these recur with increasing intensity over the next hour or so - unless I drink a large glass of water, when the sequence stops.>>

Yes!

I'm now wondering if I'll be able to get away with a lower dose of Lamictal. I've been at 400mg/day, which makes me pretty ditzy. How's your cognitive function at 200mg?

Thanks a million.

Karyn

Hi Chris,

I read your post a week ago and since our conditions sound similar, I decided to try staying hydrated and see what happened. I can't believe the improvement, and I can't believe that in the five years since the epi started, none of my three neurologists mentioned the possibility that the seizures could be triggered by dehydration. My very first seizure took place on an airplane (I thought maybe it was the altitude...) and they always get worse in the summer.

<<warning signs do appear in the form of very mild, simple partial seizures but these recur with increasing intensity over the next hour or so - unless I drink a large glass of water, when the sequence stops.>>

Yes!

I'm now wondering if I'll be able to get away with a lower dose of Lamictal. I've been at 400mg/day, which makes me pretty ditzy. How's your cognitive function at 200mg?

Thanks a million.

Karyn

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