Know about fits (Seizures)

This information is intended to educate people who don't understand their health problems.  It is a measure to help people get some awarenewss and solve their long standing health issues but not a substitute to a physician.

Any person below the age of 60 years can have fits. Fits is a neurological condition which effects your nervous system.  Most of the time the cause for the Fits is unknown, but some people may have a family tendency, some may have it after a head injury, some may have after an infection and the reasons are many.  Ten out of every thousand people in India have Fits.

Nature has created a balance in the brain between factors that begin electrical actity and those which restrict them.  During a seizure this balance breaks down and there is an abnormal electrical discharge which may cause different symptoms like loss of conciousness for a very short period, headache, confusion, altered behavious, uncontrolled movements of hands, legs, face or eyes,  or regular unexplained falls or totally unresponsive behaviour.  Depending upon the site of the leak of electrical discharge and the causative factor the seizures differ in type, duration, and intensity.