Bathing epilepsy: a video case of an autonomic seizure

Epileptic Disord. 2010 Sep;12(3):236-8. doi: 10.1684/epd.2010.0330. Epub 2010 Aug 24.

Abstract

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].

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Baths / adverse effects*
  • Child
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nausea / etiology
  • Prognosis
  • Remission, Spontaneous
  • Seizures / physiopathology
  • Temporal Lobe / physiopathology