An abdominal epilepsy will feel like abdominal cramping which can feel sharp or feel like a strong cramp and it can be accompanied by vomiting or nausea and some people may also experience confusion and or lethargy.
Abdominal epilepsy does show on EEG as abnormalities.
The EEG often shows runs of high voltage slow waves, generalized spikes and wave discharges or local abnormalities most particularly in temporal lobes.
An abdominal seizure lasts on average of 1 hour or less but if it continues or gets worse you should seek medical attention.
A gastric seizure is also known as abdominal seizures or abdominal epilepsy and causes a sensation of pain in the abdomen and the pain may be sharp or feel like a strong cramp and it can be accompanied by vomiting or nausea and some people may also experience confusion and or lethargy.
Stomach epilepsy is also known as abdominal epilepsy and is a very rare syndrome of epilepsy which most commonly occurs in children and seizure activity causes abdominal symptoms and can cause pain and nausea.
The symptoms of abdominal epilepsy are nausea and or vomiting, abdominal pain that is usually sharp or cramping and lasts from seconds to minutes, fatigue, lethargy or sleep following seizures, altered level of consciousness like confusion or unresponsiveness and convulsive seizures that are known as generalized tonic clonic seizures.
An abdominal epilepsy is very rare and is rarely the cause of abdominal pain in most people so abdominal epilepsy is most often overlooked.
In order to diagnose someone with abdominal epilepsy a doctor will need to rule out other possible causes of the abdominal pain.
Abdominal epilepsy is a very rare syndrome of epilepsy that's more likely to occur in children.
When someone has abdominal epilepsy, the seizure activity causes abdominal symptoms.
For example, the abdominal epilepsy can cause pain and nausea.
Anticonvulsant medications can improve the symptoms of abdominal epilepsy.
The gastrointestinal manifestations of abdominal epilepsy include all or a combination of the following which include recurrent abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, bloating and diarrhea.
A similar diversity of CNS manifestations has been reported, which includes confusion, fatigue, headache, dizziness and syncope.
Abdominal seizures, or gastric seizures, describe a sensation of pain in the abdomen.
The pain may be sharp or feel like a strong cramp.
It may accompany nausea or vomiting.
Some people also experience neurological symptoms such as confusion and lethargy.
Seizures can affect the movement of food through the digestive system, causing symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, pauses in breathing.
People with abdominal epilepsy usually have specific EEG abnormalities.
The EEG often shows runs of high voltage slow waves, generalized spikes, and wave discharges or local abnormalities particularly in temporal lobe.
Abdominal epilepsy is treated like other forms of epilepsy, with anticonvulsant drugs.
Phenytoin (Dilantin) is often used.
Since no controlled studies exist, though, other drugs might be equally effective.
The pathophysiology of abdominal epilepsy remains unclear.
Several mechanisms relating brain electrical activity to abdominal pain have been suggested.
One of the possible explanations is that temporal lobe seizure activity usually arises in or involves the amygdala.