Body Water in Epilepsy

Water Homeostasis Dysfunction in Epilepsy

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["Hot-water epilepsy ", "warm-water epilepsy", or bathing epilepsy? Report of three cases and considerations regarding an old theme].

Partial and generalized tonic-clonic reflex seizures related to hot water bathing have been described as temperature-related. We describe three cases of bathing epilepsy: a 28 year-old white male and a 30 year-old white female with spells triggered either by warm or hot water, and a 32 year-old female with spells triggered by hot water. The later two of the three cases presented localized epile...

Body water estimation in the newborn using tritiated water.

Of all the substances used for the estimation in vivo of total body water content, the most attractive are the isotopes of hydrogen, since they enter into all the metabolic processes involving water and have no selective secretion or storage. Deuterium was the first substance used for body water estimation in vivo (Hevesy and Hofer, 1934) and is preferable to tritium because it is not radioacti...

Body temperature changes in sea-water immersion.

Body water distribution in highlanders versus lowlanders.

Acute exposure to high altitude produces characteristic changes in body water distribution from which acclimatized individuals seem to be spared. However, it has been suggested that body water distribution may be different in highlanders (HL) as compared to lowlanders (LL). We studied the distribution of total body water (TBW) between extracellular water (ECW) and intracellular water (ICW) in a...