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Causes of Seizures
This section discusses 1403 medical conditions causing Seizures. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Seizures:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Seizures.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Causes of seizures include:
- High fever - may cause febrile convulsions
- Heatstroke
- Tapeworms
- Hypoglycemia
- Arrhythmias
- Heart attack
- Kidney failure
- Liver failure
- Marijuana - marijuana or cannabis use can trigger seizures in epileptics.
- Some causes of seizures involving loss of consciousness or syncope:
- Grand mal seizure - whole body fits
- Epilepsy
- Febrile convulsions
- Generalized seizures (type of Convulsions)
- Eclampsia of pregnancy
- See also causes of convulsions
- Some causes of smaller seizures not involving loss of consciousness:
- Petit mal seizures - brief minor seizure episodes (often in children); see also causes of petil mal seizures.
- Focal seizures
- Epilepsy - can cause petit mal seizures
- Brain conditions causing seizures include:
- Brain injury
- Brain inflammation
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
- Head injury
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
- Breathing or respiratory conditions causing seizures include:
- Breathing difficulty
- Breath holding - in infants
- Whooping cough
- Substances causing seizures include:
- Drug abuse
- Alcohol abuse
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Certain types of poisoning
- Certain drug overdoses
- See also causes of convulsions
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Reye's syndrome
- Rh problems
Causes of Seizures listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Seizures as a symptom include:
- 6-Pyruvoyl tetrahydropterin synthase deficiency
- Absence seizure
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency
- Aicardi Goutieres syndrome
- Aicardi's syndrome
- Alcohol withdrawal syndrome
- Alexander disease
- Alpers disease
- Alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency
- Aluminium (dialysis related) toxicity
- Aminomethyltransferase deficiency
- Aminophylline
- Amitriptyline
- Amphotericin B
- Angelman's syndrome
- Arginase deficiency
- Arginosuccinate synthetase deficiency
- Asphyxiation
- Athabaskan brain stem dysgenesis
- Benign familial infantile convulsions
- Benign neonatal epilepsy
- Benign Rolandic epilepsy
- Bicuculline
- Bifunctional peroxisomal enzyme deficiency
- Birth hypoxia
- Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome
- Bupivacaine
- Bupropion
- CADASIL
- Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type 1a
- Carbon monoxide toxicity
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Cavernous haemangioma
- Cerebellar dyssynergia
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
- Cerebrohepatorenal syndrome
- Ceroid lipofuscinosis neuronal 2 late infantile
- Ceroid lipofuscinosis neuronal type 8
- Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 1, infantile
- Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 3, juvenile
- Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 4
- Chester porphyria
- Chloroquine
- Chromosome 12p tetrasomy syndrome
- Chromosome 7q deletion syndrome
- Ciprofloxacin
- Cocaine
- Congenital muscular dystrophy, autosomal recessive
- Coproporphyria, hereditary
- Corpus callosum agenesis type 2
- Crome syndrome
- Cyanides
- Cycloserine
- Cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency
- Cysticercosis
- D-glycerate kinase deficiency
- Dentatorubropallidoluysian degeneration
- Desipramine
- Diffuse sclerosis of Schilder
- Dihydropteridine reductase deficiency
- Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency
- Dothiepin
- Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome
- Eclampsia
- Endometriosis
- Epidermal naevus syndrome
- Epidural haemorrhage
- Epilepsy, primary
- Erythropoietin
- Fat embolism
- Febrile convulsion
- Fructose intolerance
- Fryns syndrome 2
- Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy
- Fumarase deficiency
- Gabapentin
- Galactosialidosis
- Gamma hydroxybutyrate
- Generalized gangliosidosis GM1
- Giant axonal neuropathy
- Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency
- Glutathione synthase deficiency
- Glycerol kinase deficiency
- Glycine decarboxylase deficiency
- GM1 gangliosidosis, type 2
- GM2 gangliosidosis type AB
- Griscelli syndrome type 2
- Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Hartnup's disease
- Haw River syndrome
- Hypocalcaemia
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hyponatraemia
- Hypophosphataemia
- I-cell disease
- Imipenem
- Intracranial abscess / granuloma
- Intracranial arteriovenous malformation
- Intracranial space-occupying lesion
- Intraspinal abscess / granuloma
- Intraventricular haemorrhage
- Isoniazid
- Kohlschutter syndrome
- Lafora body disease
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Lead
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Lidocaine
- Lithium
- Malaria
- Malaria (malignant tertian)
- Malignant hypertension
- Malonyl-CoA decarboxylase deficiency
- Maple syrup urine disease
- McLeod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome
- Mefenamic acid
- Mefloquine
- MELAS
- Meningioma
- Meningoencephalitis
- Menke disease
- MERRF
- Methionine malabsorption
- Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency
- Microphthalmia-dermal aplasia-sclerocornea syndrome
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscle-eye-brain disease
- Nalidixic acid
- Nasu-Hakola disease
- Neonatal hypoglycaemia
- Neurocysticercosis
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Nikethamide
- Norfloxacin
- Nortriptyline
- Oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome
- Ohtahara syndrome
- Ornithine carbamyltransferase deficiency
- Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
- Parry-Romberg syndrome
- Peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase deficiency
- Phosphoethanolaminuria
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Porphobilinogen synthase deficiency
- Posterior leucoencephalopathy syndrome
- Progressive encephalopathy-edema-hypsarrhythmia-optic atrophy syndrome
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
- Rabies
- Ramon syndrome
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Rasmussen encephalitis
- Recessive deafness-onychodystrophy-osteodystrophy-retardation syndrome
- Renal failure, chronic
- Respiratory failure
- Rett syndrome
- Romano-Ward syndrome
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
- Rud's syndrome
- Salaam attacks
- Salla disease
- Sandhoff's disease
- Sanjad-Sakati syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Schistosoma japonicum
- Schizencephaly
- Seemanova-Lesny syndrome
- Seitelberger's disease
- Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
- Sialidosis type 1
- Sickle cell crisis (thrombotic)
- Sjogren-Larsson syndrome
- Sotos syndrome
- Sphingomyelinase deficiency
- Strychnine
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Subdural haemorrhage
- Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency
- Sulphite oxidase deficiency
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Takayasu's arteritis
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- Thebaine
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Toxoplasma, congenital
- Tramadol
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Tyrosinaemia type 2
- Unverricht-Lundborg syndrome
- Van der Knaap disease
- Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia
- Walker-Warburg syndrome
- Water hemlock poisoning
- Worster-Drought syndrome
- X-linked mental retardation 1
- X-linked periventricular heterotopia
- Zunich neuroectodermal syndrome
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Seizures:
The following list of conditions have 'Seizures' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.