Intra-Familial Incidence and Characteristics of Hot Water Epilepsy

Intra-familial incidence and characteristics of hot water epilepsy.

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical features of several members of the same family diagnosed with both hot water epilepsy (HWE) and cerebral lesions. METHODS Age at onset and types of seizure, precipitating factors, EEG findings, and neuroimages were evaluated. RESULTS The family consisted of six generations, including one consanguineous parent. Of eight family members diagnosed with epilepsy,...

["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...

Investigating Relationship of positive Family Historypattern and the incidence of idiopathic epilepsy in patients with epilepsy

Hot water epilepsy and Mccune–Albright syndrome: A case report

We observed a 15-year-old Caucasian boy with a rare form of reflex epilepsy, known as hot water epilepsy (HWE), associated to McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS). This is a rare disease due to post-zygotic and somatic mutations of the Gs-alpha gene, that results in cellular mosaicism. Predominant features of MAS occur in the bony skeleton, the skin, the endocrine system, and, in atypical presentatio...

Hot water epilepsy - a report of three cases.

Hot water epilepsy (HWE) is a rare form of reflex epilepsy caused by bathing with hot water. In this paper, we describe three cases with hot water epilepsy. It occurs generally in children with normal psychomotor development and children continue to develop normally after seizure. HWE has usually a favorable prognosis by first avoiding lukewarm water and secondly using either intermittent oral ...