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Anyone Ever Have a Natural Gas Leak cause grand mal seizures?
Tue, 09/02/2008 - 16:21Hi I am new to the forum and wanted to see if anyone discovered a natural gas leak that was causing them to having grand mal seizures. My husband started having seizures a year and a half ago with the first one being while he was asleep. All have been while he was asleep in our home never anywere else. We moved into the house in March of 2007 and he started having seizures in July 2007. He never had them before this point and it does not run in the family. He does have some right frontal lobe brain damage from a bicycle accident that happended in 2000 but he never experienced these until we moved into our house. While he has had some sleep issues from the brain damage he never had seizures as a result of this damage. We discovered this past weekend we had a gas leak in our house from the time it was built. Anyone know if this can cause seizures? I know it may sound crazy but I just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts about this.
Thanks,
Kristy
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Re: Anyone Ever Have a Natural Gas Leak cause grand mal seizures
Submitted by NanaRby on Wed, 2008-09-03 - 13:31
Hi,
Iam new here as of today my Grandson got a fever and vomiting one week after my son moved his wife and two boys into a new rental house. Before they moved in the landlord told them to keep the windows open because of the fumes caused from them redueing all of the wooden floors inside their home. Some kind of covering they use after sanding wood floors when I visited them you could still smell the stuff they put on the floors even with all the windows open. And all the Drs. at the hospital are telling us thats not what is wrong with him its some kind of virus in his brain but they cant come up with any answers yet driving us all crazy. He was seen by a Dr. on Tuesday and then started having seizures on Friday and its been 20 days now and still no answers. You can read my whole story on my page. I keep wondering if my Grandson is having a allergic reation to the floor covering stuff. The Drs. tell us if he had any kind of allergic reaction it would be from him walking on the floor and it would be right away not a week later. Still waiting for answers. Wish I had one for you. God Bless, Cindy
Hi,
Iam new here as of today my Grandson got a fever and vomiting one week after my son moved his wife and two boys into a new rental house. Before they moved in the landlord told them to keep the windows open because of the fumes caused from them redueing all of the wooden floors inside their home. Some kind of covering they use after sanding wood floors when I visited them you could still smell the stuff they put on the floors even with all the windows open. And all the Drs. at the hospital are telling us thats not what is wrong with him its some kind of virus in his brain but they cant come up with any answers yet driving us all crazy. He was seen by a Dr. on Tuesday and then started having seizures on Friday and its been 20 days now and still no answers. You can read my whole story on my page. I keep wondering if my Grandson is having a allergic reation to the floor covering stuff. The Drs. tell us if he had any kind of allergic reaction it would be from him walking on the floor and it would be right away not a week later. Still waiting for answers. Wish I had one for you. God Bless, Cindy
Re: Anyone Ever Have a Natural Gas Leak cause grand mal seizures
Submitted by Texas_med on Tue, 2008-09-02 - 23:08
My name is Shawn. I am a Professional Nurse in the neurology sector at the hospital as well as an epilepsy patient myself. I can say that it may be possible that the natural gas leak causes seizures since your brain requires a very high oxygen-concentrated blood supply. One thing though is that he would most likely go unconscious and go into a coma due to the oxygen-deprivation before he would have the seizures. Just in case you wonder, what happens is the carbon monoxide binds to the blood cells and causes oxygen deprivation. It would usually cause slowing brain activity which causes dizziness and fainting rather than the highly excessive electrical activity that causes the siezures. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me. My e-mail is shawn@tvcfd.org. Hope I helped
My name is Shawn. I am a Professional Nurse in the neurology sector at the hospital as well as an epilepsy patient myself. I can say that it may be possible that the natural gas leak causes seizures since your brain requires a very high oxygen-concentrated blood supply. One thing though is that he would most likely go unconscious and go into a coma due to the oxygen-deprivation before he would have the seizures. Just in case you wonder, what happens is the carbon monoxide binds to the blood cells and causes oxygen deprivation. It would usually cause slowing brain activity which causes dizziness and fainting rather than the highly excessive electrical activity that causes the siezures. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me. My e-mail is shawn@tvcfd.org. Hope I helped