Causes of Convulsions
Underlying condition causes of Convulsions: The list of possible underlying conditions (see also Misdiagnosis of underlying causes of Convulsions) mentioned in various sources as possible causes of Convulsions includes:
- Fever - such as for febrile convulsions
- Febrile convulsions
- Epilepsy - most common cause of seizures in adults.
- Breath holding - in infants
- Breathing difficulty
- Whooping cough
- Brain inflammation
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
- Head injury
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
- Hypoglycemia
- Certain types of poisoning
- Certain drug overdoses (type of Adverse reaction)
- Alcohol withdrawal
Convulsions as a complication: Other conditions that might have Convulsions as a complication might be potential underlying causes of Convulsions. The list of conditions listing Convulsions as a complication in our database includes:
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Amphetamines
- Binswanger's Disease
- Celiac Disease
- Cocaine
- Down Syndrome
- Ehrlichiosis
- End-stage renal disease
- Fungal meningitis
- Japanese encephalitis
- Kidney failure
- Lupus
- Marijuana
- Porphyria
- Preeclampsia
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Rett's syndrome
- Roseola infantum
- Sandhoff Disease
- Uremia
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Whooping Cough
- Yellow fever
Convulsions as a symptom: Conditions listing Convulsions as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Convulsions. The list of conditions listing Convulsions as a symptom in our database includes:
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
- Acute kidney failure
- African Sleeping sickness
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Alexander Syndrome
- Alpers Syndrome
- Alternating Hemiplegia
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Amphetamines
- Anoxia
- Arachnoid Cysts
- Arteriovenous Malformation
- Asphyxia
- Barbiturate abuse
- Batten Disease
- Benzodiazepine abuse
- Binswanger's Disease
- Brain cancer
- Bulimia nervosa
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Celiac Disease
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chagas disease
- Chemical pneumonia
- Classic childhood ALD
- Cocaine
- Concussion
- Congenital Toxoplasmosis
- Convulsions
- Craniosynostosis
- Cysticercosis
- Dandy-Walker Syndrome
- Diabetic hypoglycemia
- DiGeorge's syndrome
- East African Trypanosomiasis
- Eclampsia
- Ecstasy
- Encephalitis
- Encephaloceles
- End-stage renal disease
- Epilepsy
- Fahr's Syndrome
- Febrile Seizures
- Gaucher Disease
- Granulomatous amebic encephalitis
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Heatstroke
- High altitude cerebral edema
- HIV/AIDS
- Holoprosencephaly
- Hydranencephaly
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemic attack
- Incontinentia Pigmenti
- Joubert Syndrome
- Kidney failure
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
- Lead poisoning
- Leukemia
- Listeriosis
- Lupus
- Megalencephaly
- Melioidosis
- Meningioma
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal disease
- Menkes Disease
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
- Microcephaly
- Mitochondrial diseases
- Moyamoya Disease
- Naegleria
- Neonatal ALD
- Neurocysticercosis
- Neuronal Migration Disorders
- Nocardiosis
- Ohtahara Syndrome
- Oligodendroglioma
- Parry Romberg Syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
- Pneumonia
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Porencephaly
- Porphyria
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
- Pulmonary embolism
- Rabies
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Type 2
- Rett's syndrome
- Reye's Syndrome
- Rift Valley Fever
- Sandhoff Disease
- Schilder's Disease
- Schistosomiasis
- Schizencephaly
- Septo-Optic Dysplasia
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Stroke
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Syphilis
- Tetanus
- Todd's Paralysis
- Toxocariasis
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Viral meningitis
- West African Trypanosomiasis
- Whooping Cough
- Yellow fever
- Zellweger Syndrome
Causes of Convulsions: medical news summaries: The following medical news items are relevant to causes of Convulsions:
- Case of severe epilepsy alleviated by high fat diet
- Hereditary spastic paraplegia is a frequently misdiagnosed neurological disorder
- Magnetic pulse therapy may help depression sufferers where drugs fail
- Researchers find that urine protein measurement can determine preeclampsia risk
Related information for causes of Convulsions:
Further relevant information on causes of Convulsions may be found
in the risk factors for Convulsions
and underlying causes of Convulsions.
Last revision:
April 9, 2003
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