Brushing can cause seizures

Regular brushing can affect people with a rare epilepsy caused by a small injury in the brain.

(Watersense) Australian researchers have published a study on 3 people with epilepsy after brushing their teeth. These people all have the same lesions in somatosensory cortex - the area that controls the face, mouth and gums.

Seizures occur when people brush 2 sides of their teeth and cause their faces to twitch and deform. A person is still drooling while others cannot release the brush.

Dr. Wendyl D'Souza, neuroscientist at St Vincent Hospital in Melbourne, said the regular brushing action stimulates an area in the mouth that causes seizures.

According to D'Souza, lesions in the brain are healing tumors that have been there for a long time, like birthmarks."We removed the tumor in a patient because he wanted to stop seizures and did not want to take the medicine, and the person finally ran out of seizures."

"The long-term solution is to control seizures with drugs if possible and brush teeth more gently. Surgery also works but it can damage other structures in the brain."

Neuroscientists believe that there are less than 10 epilepsy epilepsy worldwide.

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