blood sugar  two dyas-projectile vomiting-low sodium=again icu.treated , nasal feed .two days severe seizures.Back to icu..spinal tap mri ct done.normal,seizures which by evening localised to left side hand and leg.treated empirically for hsv enchephilatis.Spinal tap  showed no HSV,bactrial or fungal. on ventillator.2 days later seizures stopped  she was extubated.third day fine and then localised seizures and a full seizure in  eveing. .treated for hsv enchphilatis.all mre ct spinal tap repeated.eeg showed abnormal epileptic activity.spinal tap all negative,mri ct no damages.Again on ventillator.seizure totally arrested.after 6 days of deep drosiness which i was told due to drugs she became conscious.tracheastomy done as she failed extubation.she regained memory and was fine 2 days after 2 days she is not conscious for 10 days.only responds deep stimuli,pain opens eyes for minute occasionally.fevef,treat her for sepsis and fungi cancidas.not awake yet?repeat spinal tap 3 normal.help
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I am sorry to hear about this I wish I could answer your Qs. I was just browsing and came across this.I had to post something back!My daughter was very sick about a week ago. She is fine now. But it was so scary.No one knew what she was sick with... Thats the worst part.She is only 2. She was passing alot of blood in her stool....Well we,as humans, always think of the worst first.I felt like the Dr.s were not doing enoff.But I now know that if you trust your DR. with all your hart then your mother is in the right place!But if not...Find some were you do trust.Ya'll will be in my familys prayers.  when you don't know what to do,Take your hands off the situation-by not worring(as much)-and God will then take care of it.
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She needs to go to another doctor.  Have they checked her for brain tumor or blockage in the brain?  Sounds like she got blockage from her oxygen somewhere.  If she is passing out for long periods of time she is not getting oxygen to her Brain. \n\nIt's not Thyroid.  I have Thyroid.  I've been taken medicine for it for many many years.  I take the maximum dose and I've never ever had that problem.  You might look at taken her to a neurologist. \n\n\n\nSource  First Aid: Fainting \nFainting occurs when the blood supply to your brain is momentarily inadequate, causing you to lose consciousness... \n\nPassed out; Lightheadedness - fainting; Syncope; Vasovagal \nDefinition    Return to top \n\nFainting is a temporary loss of consciousness due to a drop in blood flow to the brain. The episode is brief (lasting less than a couple of minutes) and is followed by rapid and complete recovery. You may feel lightheaded or dizzy before fainting.\n\nA longer, deeper state of unconsciousness is often called a coma.\n\nConsiderations    Return to top \n\nWhen you faint, you not only experience loss of consciousness, but also loss of muscle tone and paling of color in your face. You may also feel weak or nauseated just prior to fainting, and you may have the sense that surrounding noises are fading into the background.\n\nCommon Causes    Return to top \n\nFainting may occur while you are urinating, having a bowel movement (especially if straining), coughing strenuously, or when you have been standing in one place too long. Fainting can also be related to fear, severe pain, or emotional distress.\n\nA sudden drop in blood pressure can cause you to faint. This may happen if you are bleeding or severely dehydrated. It can also happen if you stand up very suddenly from a lying position.\n\nCertain medications may lead to fainting by causing a drop in your blood pressure or for another reason. Common drugs that contribute to fainting include those used for anxiety, high blood pressure, nasal congestion, and allergies.\n\nOther reasons you may faint include hyperventilation, use of alcohol or drugs, or low blood sugar.\n\nLess common but more serious reasons include heart disease (like abnormal heart rhythm or heart attack) and stroke.\n\nHome Care    Return to top \n\nIf you have a history of fainting and have been evaluated medically, follow your doctor's instructions for how to prevent fainting episodes. For example, if you know the situations that cause you to faint, avoid or change them. Avoid sudden changes in posture. Get up from a lying or seated position slowly and gradually. When having blood drawn (if this makes you faint), tell the technician and make sure that you are lying down.\n\nImmediate treatment for someone who has fainted includes:\n\nChecking the person's airway and breathing. If necessary, call 911 and begin rescue breathing and CPR. \nLoosening tight clothing around the neck. \nKeeping the affected person lying down for at least 10 - 15 minutes, preferably in a cool and quiet space. If the person cannot lie down, have him sit forward and lower his head below the levels of the shoulders, between the knees. \nIf vomiting has occurred, turning the person onto one side to prevent choking \nElevating the feet above the level of the heart (about 12 inches). \nCall your health care provider if    Return to top \n\nCall 911 if the person who fainted:\n\nFell from a height, especially if injured or bleeding. \nDoes not regain consciousness quickly (within a couple of minutes). \nIs pregnant or over 50 years old. \nHas diabetes (check medical identification bracelets). \nFeels chest pain, pressure, or discomfort; pounding or irregular heartbeat; or has loss of speech, visual disturbances, or inability to move one or more limbs. \nHas convulsions, tongue trauma, or loss of bowel control. \nEven if it's not an emergency situation, people should be evaluated by a doctor if they have never fainted before, if they a
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I've been a nurse for 18 years and have taken thousands and thousands of temperatures...\n\nYour temp 40.8C is 105.4F.  The highest one I ever took was 105.2. The body can start having seizures around 105.  I hope you're feeling better now.  Keep resting and drinking a lot of fluids.
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Virus eradication is not the issue in his case.  Liver failure resulting in coma is a very poor prognostic sign.  He is not likely to survive this episode because the liver is not functioning to purify the blood of chemicals which are poisonous to the body (and brain).  If his body tolerates life support and the medical team is able to get him past this crisis and he has enough reserve liver to function, he may be able to survive a short time after.  All of these things are unlikely from what you have told us, I am sorry to say.  I wish you, your children and him the best in this ordeal.  Liver failure patients do not suffer while comatose.
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If this is a serious problem for you, why on earth would you ask on this site?  Would you really follow advice from someone like me.  I know me and I wouldn't.  \n\nIf you are not happy with your doctor's advice (or lack thereof) get a second, third or even fourth opinion.  You can also try www.nih.gov and check out germane clinical studies.  But don't try to self-diagnose.\n\nIt is entirely possible that, due to the chronic overuse of antibiotics over the past 50 years, you have been infected by a bacteria that has become immune to antibiotics, in which case, there is little your local doctor is going to be able to do for you.  If there is one in your area, go to a teaching hospital.  If there is not, take the trip.  And make sure you are seen by a specialist in infectious diseases.\n\nHopefully you are smart enough to know to ignore the answers you will undoubtedly get that advise you to pray for a cure, or to give up because you are being punished by God.\n\nOr, do what my grandmother did.  Run around your front yard naked three times at 2:00 a.m. during the full moon while swinging a 3 week dead, unplucked chicken (yeah, it's fowl) over your head and chanting "Boil, boil, toil and trouble - I don't want to lance this bubble"  It might or might not help, but you'll meet your neighbors, and maybe your local police.  Grams married a really cute detective.\n\nGood luck.  (And don't eat the chicken)
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As in other mucocutaneous herpetic infections, herpetic whitlow is initiated by viral inoculation of the host through exposure to infected body fluids via a break in the skin, most commonly a torn cuticle. The virus then invades the cells of the dermis and subcutaneous tissue, and clinical infection ensues within a matter of days. \n\nIn children, HSV-1 is the most likely causative agent. Infection involving the finger usually is due to autoinoculation from primary oropharyngeal lesions as a result of finger-sucking or thumb-sucking behavior in patients with herpes labialis or herpetic gingivostomatitis. \n\nSimilarly, in health care workers, infection with HSV-1 is more common and usually is secondary to unprotected exposure to infected oropharyngeal secretions of patients. This easily can be prevented by use of gloves and by scrupulous observation of universal fluid precautions. \n\nIn the general adult population, herpetic whitlow is most often due to autoinoculation from genital herpes; therefore, it is most frequently secondary to infection with HSV-2. \n\nSubsequent to the initial exposure, an incubation period of 2-20 days is common. Although a prodrome of fever and malaise may be observed, most often initial symptoms are pain and burning or tingling of the infected digit. This usually is followed by erythema, edema, and the development of 1- to 3-mm grouped vesicles on an erythematous base over the next 7-10 days. These vesicles may ulcerate or rupture and usually contain clear fluid, although the fluid may appear cloudy or bloody. Lymphangitis and epitrochlear and axillary lymphadenopathy are not uncommon. After 10-14 days, symptoms usually improve significantly and lesions crust over and heal. \n\nViral shedding is believed to resolve at this point. Complete resolution occurs over subsequent 5-7 days. \n\nAs is typical of other herpetic infections, herpetic whitlow is characterized by a primary infection, which may be followed by a latent period with subsequent recurrences. After the initial infection, the virus enters cutaneous nerve endings and migrates to the peripheral ganglia and Schwann cells where it lies dormant. The primary infection usually is the most symptomatic. Recurrences observed in 20-50% of cases are usually milder and shorter in duration.\n\nHerpes generally sets up shop in one place. Once it's there, it recurs in that place but doesn't spread elsewhere, because antibodies in the bloodstream keep it from getting a toehold. (Otherwise, everyone with a cold sore would spread herpes all over the body every time they washed their face.)\n\nYou can get whitlow from touching someone's mouth who is shedding herpes (e.g. dentists, hygienists.) But most of the time, people with herpes anywhere have no real idea where it originally came from.\n\nIf recurrences are frequent or painful you should look into taking an oral antiviral pill wither all the time or as soon as an outbreak starts. Of course, you'll want to be absolutley sure (by culture of a fresh outbreak) that what you had was really herpes and not, say, bacteria.\n\nIt is advisable that, because the infection can orginate from the HSV-1, that it can be transmitted to the sexual organ(s) through touch with the open sores on the infected appendage.\n\n-Good Luck
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I know you are only looking for professional medical opinions, but I think I can help. It is important to get a CT scan, an MRI or PET if your doctor thinks it would be better. Also an EEG, sleeping and awake could be helpful. There is a slim possibity that a tumor or anurism could form in two years time, even with a neuroligist near by. If your nero does not take your concerns seiously, consiter getting a second oppinion. I have seen four different neuros, switching for different reasons. The fear of the unknown is severe, so be sure to get an answer and consiter joining a support group even if you are completly healthy. The return of symptoms after a reprieve is horific, I know from experience, but keep up hope.
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my mum has a very painful forearm so she went to have a scan and they revealed that it is a trapped nerve in her neck which put her out of work for 7 months. after the operation she had to have a cage put on her head and bolts in her neck. she stuggled sleeping because she had to sleep upright for 5 months! if i was you i would go and see your doctor right away. i hope i have helped and i also hope your wife gets better soon!
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It sounds like a yeast infection...and if she has been on anti-biotics she would be susceptible to one.  You can get liquid acidophiles at your local health food store (it comes in strawberry and blueberry flavors that kids usually like).  Give her 1-2 tsp a day while on anti-biotics and for 10 days after.  A friend of mine (who is a nurse)told me this trick for my son, whom the doctor was getting ready to have tubes put in his ears for ear infections.  He hasn't had an ear infection since.  Now I always give the acidophiles during anti-biotics to my family.  The anti-biotics kill off the good bacteria with the bad and it lowers the immune system.  Using pro-biotics (such as acidophiles) helps to counter act the down-side of anti-biotics.  Also, keep her off sugar (that includes fruit) until she clears up...sugar will feed the yeast and make it worse.  I would also let the doctor know that the symptoms haven't improved and make sure that it isn't something else besides a yeast infection.
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My husband, 24, has got an AVM in the Right parietal lobe of his brain.   I am not sure what a syrnix is, or where her AVM may be.  He was diagnosed with the AVM almost 2 years ago now, and has undergone 5 embolizations of it, with still more to go.  It has been a long, up and down battle, but as of now he is doing great!!   If you have any questions, or want to contact me, don't hesitate!--  Email me.  sonotech02@yahoo.com  \n  I work in the medical feild and have been researching this for the past 2 years with assistance from many doctors!
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Maybe your symptoms are not related to eachother.  As for the sick feeling after eating, have your doctor do a blood test for H. pylori.  It's a bacteria that causes ulcers.  It's a really quick blood test.  My doctor did it in the office and gave me the results right then along with a round of antibiotics.  I was sick for a couple of years before changing doctors and getting the right diagnosis.  Good luck on the issue of passing out.  I also have that problem.  My doctor told me that in 65% of the cases they never find a cause.  I had an MRI to check for tumors in the brain (I have a history of cancer so that was a possibility), an EEG to test for seizures, and a carotid ultrasound to check for blockage in my arteries.  Everything came back fine.  Apparently, it is all stress induced.  I wouldn't worry about the vision problems.  Those are very common with migraines.  I get those too and you can even get silent migraines where you only experience the vision disturbances without the headache.  If you really feel like something is wrong, keep pushing your doctor for answers.  You should listen to your body.
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Of course you must constatly try to stimulate all his senses.  Touch, smell, taste, sight, sound... this will keep his mind and body active.  But you should check out this recent discovery.  It might give you hope.  But Im not sure about permanent brain damage, or diabetic comas.  Another problem might be his age,  but this certainly is a new and hopeful chance. \n\n"Reborn\nWe have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill (zolpidem). And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and wonderful' rebirths."  The Guardian September 12 2006
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I think you would have an idea that GBS is actually the body attacking its own nervous system. Therefore it is autoimmune in nature (polyradiculoneuropathy). \n\nGBS manifests as rapidly evolving areflexic motor paralysis with or without sensory disturbance. The usual pattern is an ascending paralysis that may be first noticed as rubbery legs. Weakness typically evolves over hours to a few days and is frequently accompanied by tingling dysesthesias in the extremities. The legs are usually more affected than the arms, and facial diparesis is present in 50% of affected individuals. The lower cranial nerves are also frequently involved, causing bulbar weakness and difficulty with handling secretions and maintaining an airway. Most patients require hospitalization, and almost 30% require ventilatory assistance at some time during the illness. Fever and constitutional symptoms are absent at the onset, and, if present, cast doubt on the diagnosis. Deep tendon reflexes usually disappear within the first few days of onset. Cutaneous sensory deficits, e.g., loss of pain and temperature sensation, are usually relatively mild, but functions subserved by large sensory fibers, such as deep tendon reflexes and proprioception, are more severely affected. Bladder dysfunction may occur in severe cases but is usually transient. If bladder dysfunction is a prominent feature and comes early in the course, possibilities other than GBS should be considered, particularly spinal cord disease. Once clinical worsening stops and the patient reaches a plateau, further progression is unlikely.\n\nIn severe cases of GBS requiring critical care management, autonomic involvement is common. Usual features are loss of vasomotor control with wide fluctuation in blood pressure, postural hypotension, and cardiac dysrhythmias. These features require close monitoring and management and can be fatal. Pain is another common feature of GBS; several types are encountered. Most common is deep aching pain in weakened muscles, which patients liken to having overexercised the previous day. Other pains in GBS include back pain involving the entire spine and sometimes dysesthetic pain in the extremities as a manifestation of sensory nerve fiber involvement.
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Hi, 2 of my daughters' had seizures. My oldest daughter had them on and off for about 8 yrs. There were conflicting diagnosis's as to the cause. My daughter is a diabetic and Diabetes can cause seizures, that was one diagnosis. The other diagnosis was Epilepsy. My daughter was treated with medication for Epilepsy, but has been seizure free for 10 years now, and has not had to take medication for 9 years. My other daughter had seizures also and she too is diabetic. Her seizures were not caused from the Diabetes or Epilepsy but from high fevers. She never took medication for them and eventually "out grew" them. In my opinion seizures can be very complex or relatively simple, however even doctors don't know all the causes of seizures sometimes the cause is never known. Hope this helped somewhat. I also have a nursing degree and what I learned about seizures from my schooling I think just covers the very basic knowledge we know and there is alot more to learn. I hope your aunt finds out the cause and is able to get treatment. Let me know if this info helped you or not. Email me at s_34_28_36@yahoo.com Good luck and God Bless you.
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I am not a nurse or doctor,however,I have been diabetic (type 1) for 36 years. A normal blood sugar reading is between 80 and 120, At 190 sugar spills into your urine. That's when you become thirsty, beyond belief, and start to dehydrate. You will know every washroom in the city because of constant urination. I have been hospilized w/ a reading of about 1200. That was with taking insulin. I had dental work done, and the infection got the best of me. Your reading shows you that your sugar is high, but it is the way the sugar affects your organs that can be fatal. When I had my episode, my potassium levels were screaming high,my kidneys had shut down,I lost the vision in one eye from such a low blood pressure. I was in a coma for a day before anyone found me. I remained so for an additional five days. During that time I suffered a heart attack. Diabetes can be hard to control, even with insulin. Sometimes it becomes more complicated because of the insulin. If you can manage it without..DO IT! Get on a diet recommended by a dietition, get yourself a glucometer to check your sugar at home frequently. Exercise. Show your family the way to deal with it should they eventually have it. Your circulation is compromised, affecting your legs and feet, eyes, and kidneys, skin. High sugar means you will have a harder time fighting infections. Your teeth and gums will need extra care-and you are the only one that can do it. Don't become blind or on dialysis because you can't pass up a candy bar or a chunk of cake. your family needs you, and when you look at their smiling faces, you'll be grateful to be with them. I know I am telling you scary things. I wish someone had really explained to me HOW these things could come to pass. It's because it affects the smallest,tiniest blood vessels in your body. You don't always "just die" from diabetes. You could live a long time with what it can do to you. Good luck to you. I would be so proud of you if you could turn this thing around to become incredibley healthy. This would be the time to do that. If you see that your sugar is rising,for no apparent reason, such as large meal,eating fruit,etc.,call your doctor. It may be from a sinus infection, earache,cut that won't heal. The infection raises your sugar, your sugar makes it difficult to get rid of the infection. And so it goes..round and round. Don't wait for a huge spike in your numbers.
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I have it.\n\nIt's a condition in which the brain either overproduces cerebro-spinal fluid, or this fluid doesn't drain correctly.  Either way, the fluid build up puts pressure on the brain which can cause symptoms that mimic those found in patients with brain tumor.  Common symptoms include severe headache that may be positional, decreased visual field, and a "whooshing" sound, called pulsile tintinitis.  Diagnostic medical findings are swollen optic nerve heads, decreased field of vision, and increased CSF upon spinal tap.  \n\nTreatments range from diet, exercise, and management thru taps, to pharmaceutical treatment as well as the placement of VP and LP shunts.\n\nThere's nothing "pseudo" about it.  The pain is real.  The physical damage it can cause is real.  The debilitation is real.  This is NOT an "it's all in your head" disease.  For more information check out:  http://www.ihrfoundation.org/
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seriously a big matter, i feel this is a case of very severe food poisoning, please go see a doctor to get a jab, i remember the last time i had one of those, i was so sick i couldnt move. Hope you bring your partner there as soon as possible, Cheers