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Blood Test Helps Spot Epileptic Seizure
Sun, 11/27/2005 - 12:34I found this a few weeks ago and thougth it was worth sharing.
Very interesting article,,,
http://health.ivillage.com/brain/0,,wbnews_876003bm,00.html?dst=rss|wb
Re: Blood Test Helps Spot Epileptic Seizure
Submitted by guitarmomma on Mon, 2005-11-28 - 11:13
Here is some more thought on this.....http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/ar_1127928348.html It helped my son's diagnosis when his prolactin level was high after his first tonic clonic seizure. Some problems with it you must get the test done within a short time period, within 20 minutes I think. it is not useful in differentiating between an epileptic seizure and syncope. There are some other true epileptic seizures that might not show an increase, frontal lobe and some complex partials I believe are listed. it is one more step in helping determine seizures, however.