People use “seizure” and “epilepsy” interchangeably, but they are not some. To understand better, I will put it like this, “ All epilepsy patients have seizures but all seizure patients are not epileptic” which means that there are non-epileptic causes of seizures also like hypoglycaemia, brain tumours, hypoxia, metabolic derangements, brain infections, cerebrovascular accidents etc. In other words, epilepsy is seizure without any organic cause or lesion. Sometimes, another terminology ‘convulsion’ is also used. It refers to the involuntary contraction/relaxation that occurs in seizure patients. ‘Convulsion’ is rather a layman’s term and you will find them referred to frequently in news and general discussion. It is to be remembered that some seizure disorder like absence seizure may not be manifested as ‘convulsions’
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