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O Children with Dravet syndrome typically have
problems of language and motor skills,
hyperactivity, and difficulty relating to others.
What is dravet?
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O Dravet syndrome, also called severe myoclonic
epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is a severe form of
epilepsy.
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When it appears
O It appears during the first year of life with
frequent febrile seizures – fever-related
seizures that, by definition, are rare beyond
age 5.
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O Epileptic seizures affect the cerebral cortex, where
brain functions that require our will.
O It makes you depend of an adult.
WHAT HAPPENS?WHAT HAPPENS?
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O This illness is a choric illness because it
appears slowly and last forever.
WHAT TYPE OF ILLNESS IS?WHAT TYPE OF ILLNESS IS?
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O Depending on people is sporadic because
these diseases only affect few people very
few people because is very weird.
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O This type of illness an non-infectious
diseases because it happens when you are
born: nonsense mutations in the SCN1A
gene resulting in a premature stop codon
and thus a non-functional protein.
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O Doctors haven't find any medicine or
vaccine that helps them stop having
seizures heaven no operation can help
them by the are having experimental
medicines.
PREVENTIONSPREVENTIONS
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What type of medicines are
important to have?
O It’s important to avoid medications called
sodium channel blockers as these can
worsen seizures in Dravet syndrome.
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Facts
O A kid with Dravet has to sleep with an adult or if nor it
could die because of the seizures
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What are seizures?
O An epileptic seizure, also known as an
epileptic fit, is a brief episode of signs or
symptoms due to abnormal excessive or
synchronous neuronal activity in the brain
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