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Is There Chances Of Epilepsy In Old Age?
my uncle fainted on 10 days ago and he himself come to his 1st flr. reidential house without any help.then he did c.T. Scan and E.E.G. but local neurologist just said its a case epilepsy but did not advise any medicine.my question is :Is any person around the age of 60 yrs. attacked by epilepsy who has not been attacked by the disease since that day?
Tue, 9 Sep 2014
Welcome to hcm,
Short loss of consciousness in elderly is most commonly due to low blood pressure or low sugar. It is very rare to have epilepsy.the other reasons include cardiac arrhythmias.
Your treating physician must have cheched his ct brain and ECG everything might be normal. So he might have said that epilepsy may be the reason behind it.
Don't worry now if that was the first episode of syncope.
Ask him to take adequate fluids
Have balanced diet
Have a fruit everyday
Relieve stress
Hope this explains
With regards
Dr.Amarnath
Short loss of consciousness in elderly is most commonly due to low blood pressure or low sugar. It is very rare to have epilepsy.the other reasons include cardiac arrhythmias.
Your treating physician must have cheched his ct brain and ECG everything might be normal. So he might have said that epilepsy may be the reason behind it.
Don't worry now if that was the first episode of syncope.
Ask him to take adequate fluids
Have balanced diet
Have a fruit everyday
Relieve stress
Hope this explains
With regards
Dr.Amarnath
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