What To Do For A Seizure (Easy Breathing Solution)
The strict definition, causes and explanation of seizures is one of the poorly-understood areas in modern medicine.
The particular clinical picture during seizures also can vary widely even for the same person depending on diet, temperature, minerals intake, hormonal profile and dozens of other factors.
As a result, there is no clear definition of "epilepsy" among various countries.
The same person can be diagnosed with epilepsy in one country, but not in the other.
However, tens of medical studies pointed out the link between abnormal or ineffective breathing and seizures.
Hence, the answer to the question "What to do for a seizure?" is simple.
You should normalize your breathing pattern.
Learn how to breathe closer to or in accordance with medical norms.
This specific respiratory exercise was introduced by Doctor K.
Buteyko, MD, PhD who created the Buteyko method and worked in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Hundreds of epileptics used this respiratory exercise with great success and could stop their seizures in 2-3 minutes.
This was possible because it was taught by tens of MDs.
Clearly he or she must be aware and conscious to perform the exercise.
Often the affected individual has the ability to predict a complex seizure or absence seizure (e.
g.
, due to stress, overheating, strong emotions, flashing lights, feeling that something wrong is going on in the brain and body, etc.
) and able to manipulate own respiration.
Since the success rate of other techniques is very low, you have nothing to lose by doing this exercise.
WARNING.
This specific respiratory exercise is NOT a substitute for your medication or any other medically supervised treatment.
It could be used as an additional technique to reduce or eliminate symptoms.
Discuss this breathing exercise with your medical professional.
How to do it? Get started as soon as you predict that something wrong is going on with your mind or body.
Anxiety and fear trigger unnatural respiratory pattern.
Breathing usually becomes even more irregular, deeper, and rapid too.
These are symptoms of over-breathing that worsens symptoms and prolongs seizures due to constriction of blood vessels (CO2 is responsible for vasodilation) and suppressed Bohr Effect (CO2 helps to release oxygen in tissues).
Do the opposite.
Breathe regularly, but only while taking small or limited inhalations through the nose (nasal breathing all the time), instead of taking your big and quick inhales.
In order to exhale just relax the diaphragm and count slowly from one to three having about 3 seconds for each exhale.
In short, take a small inhalation using your diaphragm and then relax your belly for inhalation.
Because of this small or reduced breathing, in some 20-30 s, you should get light air hunger or desire to breathe more.
Maintain it at medium level.
As a result, extra CO2 in your blood will enhance blood supply for your brain (CO2 vasodilation effect).
Improved blood supply to the brain will raise oxygen and glucose delivery and increase CO2 content in the brain at the same time.
Higher CO2 content will cool off the overexcited nerve cells and lower their threshold of excitability closer to normal values since CO2 is a natural sedative of the nerve cells.
Chest breathing, that is common in people with seizures, drastically decreases blood oxygenation and worsens the symptoms.
Lower parts of the lungs do not get fresh oxygen supply.
Consequently, the success rate for this exercise is much higher, if you can use your belly (diaphragm or abdomen) for your inhalations, instead of the chest muscles.
Numerous epileptics have seizures during nighttime without being aware about them in the morning.
There are special techniques how to prevent seizures during sleep too.
These techniques relate to correction of lifestyle factors related to sleep.
Is a long-term solution for seizures? Yes, if we know the cause and eliminate it.
Seizures appear only when your automatic breathing pattern at rest is very far from the norm, e.
g.
, you breathe 2-3 times more air than the physiological norm (that is 12 breaths per min; 6 L/min).
Hence, you can stop seizures permanently if you learn how to get rid of your heavy breathing.
You should recondition your breathing pattern so that to have normal breath parameters day and night.
Then you will be free from seizures naturally.
Breathing retraining requires special breathing techniques and correction of risky lifestyle factors that make breathing heavier.
The particular clinical picture during seizures also can vary widely even for the same person depending on diet, temperature, minerals intake, hormonal profile and dozens of other factors.
As a result, there is no clear definition of "epilepsy" among various countries.
The same person can be diagnosed with epilepsy in one country, but not in the other.
However, tens of medical studies pointed out the link between abnormal or ineffective breathing and seizures.
Hence, the answer to the question "What to do for a seizure?" is simple.
You should normalize your breathing pattern.
Learn how to breathe closer to or in accordance with medical norms.
This specific respiratory exercise was introduced by Doctor K.
Buteyko, MD, PhD who created the Buteyko method and worked in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Hundreds of epileptics used this respiratory exercise with great success and could stop their seizures in 2-3 minutes.
This was possible because it was taught by tens of MDs.
Clearly he or she must be aware and conscious to perform the exercise.
Often the affected individual has the ability to predict a complex seizure or absence seizure (e.
g.
, due to stress, overheating, strong emotions, flashing lights, feeling that something wrong is going on in the brain and body, etc.
) and able to manipulate own respiration.
Since the success rate of other techniques is very low, you have nothing to lose by doing this exercise.
WARNING.
This specific respiratory exercise is NOT a substitute for your medication or any other medically supervised treatment.
It could be used as an additional technique to reduce or eliminate symptoms.
Discuss this breathing exercise with your medical professional.
How to do it? Get started as soon as you predict that something wrong is going on with your mind or body.
Anxiety and fear trigger unnatural respiratory pattern.
Breathing usually becomes even more irregular, deeper, and rapid too.
These are symptoms of over-breathing that worsens symptoms and prolongs seizures due to constriction of blood vessels (CO2 is responsible for vasodilation) and suppressed Bohr Effect (CO2 helps to release oxygen in tissues).
Do the opposite.
Breathe regularly, but only while taking small or limited inhalations through the nose (nasal breathing all the time), instead of taking your big and quick inhales.
In order to exhale just relax the diaphragm and count slowly from one to three having about 3 seconds for each exhale.
In short, take a small inhalation using your diaphragm and then relax your belly for inhalation.
Because of this small or reduced breathing, in some 20-30 s, you should get light air hunger or desire to breathe more.
Maintain it at medium level.
As a result, extra CO2 in your blood will enhance blood supply for your brain (CO2 vasodilation effect).
Improved blood supply to the brain will raise oxygen and glucose delivery and increase CO2 content in the brain at the same time.
Higher CO2 content will cool off the overexcited nerve cells and lower their threshold of excitability closer to normal values since CO2 is a natural sedative of the nerve cells.
Chest breathing, that is common in people with seizures, drastically decreases blood oxygenation and worsens the symptoms.
Lower parts of the lungs do not get fresh oxygen supply.
Consequently, the success rate for this exercise is much higher, if you can use your belly (diaphragm or abdomen) for your inhalations, instead of the chest muscles.
Numerous epileptics have seizures during nighttime without being aware about them in the morning.
There are special techniques how to prevent seizures during sleep too.
These techniques relate to correction of lifestyle factors related to sleep.
Is a long-term solution for seizures? Yes, if we know the cause and eliminate it.
Seizures appear only when your automatic breathing pattern at rest is very far from the norm, e.
g.
, you breathe 2-3 times more air than the physiological norm (that is 12 breaths per min; 6 L/min).
Hence, you can stop seizures permanently if you learn how to get rid of your heavy breathing.
You should recondition your breathing pattern so that to have normal breath parameters day and night.
Then you will be free from seizures naturally.
Breathing retraining requires special breathing techniques and correction of risky lifestyle factors that make breathing heavier.
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