What is the cause of seizures in old age, why adults have seizures ================================================================================ Why do seizures occur suddenly in some adults despite having no previous history? Seizures are possible at any age, but they will have different symptoms and causes at different ages. Seizures in old age can be a sign of other diseases. Strokes, brain tumors, seizures caused by drug use, and some other conditions are considered causes of seizures in old age. Often, a sudden fall or severe shaking and seizures do not happen in the same way in people, but seizures happen in the same way, but loss of consciousness in people becomes seizures. It can happen in different ways in different people... In elderly people, if they do not have a history of seizures and they suddenly experience such conditions, it must be due to an underlying reason, for example, neurological diseases (brain and nerves) are among the reasons that the probability of contracting them increases with age and is related to the patient's age, and seizures occur as a secondary symptom. Although the cause of a high percentage of seizures in adults is not yet fully known, it can be said that especially in the elderly, cerebral and vascular diseases and metabolic diseases caused by cerebral encephalopathy (metabolic infections caused by cerebral encephalopathy, metabolic encephalopathies caused by cerebral encephalopathy, metabolic encephalopathies caused by cerebral encephalopathy, Metabolic encephalopathies caused by cerebral convulsions) are caused in these conditions.. from toxins, or organ failure) are among the causes of convulsions... What causes can cause secondary seizures in adults?. Some of the causes that cause secondary seizures in adults include: - Severe stroke - Sudden withdrawal from alcoholism - Alzheimer's disease - Cerebrovascular diseases - Changes in blood electrolytes (hypomagnesemia...) - Endocrine diseases - Fever - Liver problems - Heat stroke - Decreased blood sugar - Non-ketose hyperglycin - Infection in the central nervous system (meningitis, encephalitis...) - Taking some medications - Stop taking some drugs (benzodiazepines, etc.) - Kidney failure - toxic state (urea) - Damage to the brain - Tumor - Depression ### The most common cause of seizures in old age #### Stroke With increasing age and the accumulation of fatty plaques in the veins or underlying diseases such as diabetes, varicose veins, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sitting still or lack of movement in the elderly, mental pressure and other problems, the probability of stroke also increases. non-hemorrhagic is less), these patients will mostly have these symptoms less than two weeks after the stroke and often appear between twenty-four and forty-eight hours after the stroke, and only a small percentage of them may be related to epileptic disorders and may be related to clinical epilepsy. As they get older and suffer from some chronic diseases, they often take a lot of drugs.. The simultaneous use of drugs is one of the common causes of tics in adults, which is called polypharmacy syndrome.. Polypharmacy is one of the most common causes of tics in the elderly.. Of course, the health system should move towards the prevention of this syndrome by creating an electronic medical record in patients. Blood electrolyte changes are investigated as common causes, among all age groups central nervous system (CNS) infection, stroke and heatstroke are common causes.. ### #### brain diseases and disorders and dementia Dementia, the common type of which is called Alzheimer's, can increase the possibility of seizures in the elderly by 5 to 10 times. In these patients, the parts of the brain that are responsible for memory, learning, speech and logic suffer from problems and diseases, and it usually behaves as a progressive disease. Seizures caused by prescribed drugs Various drugs can be related to the onset of seizures, in a hospital study, isoniazid (a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis) and psychoactive drugs are the most stimulators in causing seizures. Almost all patients who are treated with psychiatric drugs are at risk of drug-induced seizures, the risk of this disease increases in a group of patients with the following conditions: - People who have a history of seizures. - They have had a history of seizures due to drug use - Abnormal behavior in brain waves is observed in their EEG - Those who have suffered from central nervous system diseases or head trauma in the past This possibility increases when drugs are taken at a higher therapeutic dose or the intensity of the patient's treatment increases.. Chlorpromazine (an antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of severe mental disorders) and Clozapine (a drug used to treat psychosis) have played a greater role in causing seizures. It is not recommended, instead, treatment with a lower dose of antipsychotic drugs such as risperidolone, molindozi, molindozi, molindozi, molidoloplo, halindozi, molindolo, hesperidone, halindozi, mouflon, halindozi, moflon, hesperidone, halindozi, haflo, among the mentioned medicines, olanzapine is used. fluprazine and thioridazine... #### Concussion Seizures in adulthood may be the result of brain damage, and among patients with brain injuries, late-onset seizures are more likely to occur weeks, months, or even years later, when seizures are more likely to occur as a result of neural pressure.. The treatment should be active as soon as possible, in this situation the doctor uses prolactin anticonvulsant drugs, and of course the length of treatment will vary depending on the patient's condition, the type of injury and the result of the patient's brain scan. If the patient does not have seizures, the drug is stopped gradually and after some time because the value of anticonvulsants in preventing seizures has not been proven. Hyperthermia with a systemic inflammatory response that causes dysfunction of multiple organs and often death, heatstroke This type of heatstroke is also one of the causes of convulsions in adults. In this situation, injectable benzodiazepines (such as lorazepam or diazepam) are used to prevent convulsions. This condition may occur in the cooling phase of children to treat convulsions. Hypomagnesemia is a state of the body in which the amount of magnesium in the blood is lower than normal. magnesium deficiency may be caused by certain conditions such as improper diet, lack of absorption of magnesium or reduced absorption of magnesium in the digestive system, excretion of magnesium in the kidneys, magnesium deficiency and even heart attack in patients.. See a dentist Obsessive patients or those who suffer from convulsions because some anticonvulsant drugs cause side effects such as gingivitis, and also these people may suffer serious injuries in the jaw and face in case of convulsions during dental procedures.