Epileptic Disorders
MENUBathing epilepsy: a video case of an autonomic seizure Volume 12, issue 3, September 2010
Authors
Department of Pediatrics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Key words: bathing epilepsy, water immersion epilepsy, autonomic seizures
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2010.0330
- Page(s) : 236-8
- Published in: 2010
A six-year-old Moroccan boy experienced nausea, paleness and oral automatisms after almost every shower. A clinical diagnosis of bathing epilepsy was assumed. A video-EEG recording was taken during and after a shower and confirmed ictal high voltage repetitive slow waves over the left temporal lobe. Bathing epilepsy or water immersion epilepsy is a rare form of reflex epilepsy often presenting with autonomic seizures. The onset is usually in the first year of life and the evolution is benign. [Published with video sequences]