Related articles: Convulsions
Definition
Abrupt involuntary movements, which do not cause any permanent consequences but can be accompanied by a loss of consciousness.Possible Causes * of Convulsions
- Alcoholism
- Cardiac arrest
- Binge drinking
- Cysticercosis
- Heat stroke
- cryptococcosis
- Pulmonary heart
- Dengue
- Ebola
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Encephalitis
- Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Lassa fever
- Marburg hemorrhagic fever
- Yellow fever
- Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV)
- West Nile virus infection
- Insulinoma
- Carbon monoxide intoxication
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Cerebral ischemia
- Malaria
- Cat scratch disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Gaucher disease
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
- Meningitis
- Neurofibromatosis
- Spastic paraparesis
- Porphyria
- Pre-eclampsia
- Schistosomiasis
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Sixth disease
- Shigellosis
- Reye syndrome
- Feto-alcohol syndrome
- Serotonin syndrome
- Tetanus
- Toxoplasmosis
- trichinosis
