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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-05-03 16:13:27 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: insulinoma seizures
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
During a minor seizure the individual feels spaced out, sometimes dizzy, and some may at times have some nausea.
During a large seizure there is no pain and no awareness. A seizure involves too much electrical activity in that part of the brain and it scrambles things. If I can find it I will post the URL of a site that explains how little of the brain is used normally; it is lower than the popular saying. It has a neat quote about how using the percentage mentioned in one popular saying at one time is called a seizure. Anyway, when too much electrical activity is going on at once the brain can't process a number of things, hence no awareness and no feeling.
There is awareness and feeling between major seizures.
Sometimes in a major seizure awful -- absolutely horrible sounding -- screaming will happen. That is not an aware screaming. It is mechanical. The lungs are receiving confused signals to massively exhale and the result is the screaming.
This is information known well from major seizures in humans.
Author wrote:
> Does anyone know if pain is involved for ferrets that have insulinomic seizures? I have seen this with several of the ferrets at the local shelter that I help. It looks very traumatic, are they suffering or in pain when these occur?
> Caryn
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