A 10 years old boy with bronchial asthma referred to allergy clinic for allergy work-up. He complained of abdominal pain and blurred vision 20-minutes after undergoing allergy skin scratch test. Physical examination showed clammy and cyanotic ectremities, and hypotension. The skin test result showed positive rection for house dust, mite, and shrimp. Based on these findings the diagnosis of ana…
The concept of seizure threshold holds that everyone has a certain balance between excitatory and inhibitory forces in brain. A low seizure threshold makes it easies for epilepsy to develop and easier for someone to elicit singl sezure. The opposing effects of estrogen (proconvulsant) and progesterone (anticonvulsant) on seizure threshold have been noted in animal and human studies. Eastrogen …