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DRAVETDRAVET
MADE BY MARTINA AND MARIA
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O Children with Dravet syndrome typically have problems of language and motor skills, hyperactivity, and difficulty relating to others.
What is dravet?
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O Dravet syndrome, also called severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is a severe form of epilepsy.
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When it appearsO It appears during the first year of life with
frequent febrile seizures – fever-related seizures that, by definition, are rare beyond age 5.
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O Epileptic seizures affect the cerebral cortex, where brain functions that require our will.
O It makes you depend of an adult.
WHAT HAPPENS?WHAT HAPPENS?
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In Spain there is a fundation of dravet
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O This illness is a choric illness because it appears slowly and last forever.
WHAT TYPE OF ILLNESS IS? WHAT TYPE OF ILLNESS IS?
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O Depending on people is sporadic because these diseases only affect few people very few people because is very weird.
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O This type of illness an non-infectious diseases because it happens when you are born: nonsense mutations in the SCN1A gene resulting in a premature stop codon and thus a non-functional protein.
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O Doctors haven't find any medicine or vaccine that helps them stop having seizures heaven no operation can help them by the are having experimental medicines.
PREVENTIONSPREVENTIONS
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What type of medicines are important to have?
O It’s important to avoid medications called sodium channel blockers as these can worsen seizures in Dravet syndrome.
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This the affected zone
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Who discovered it?O It was discovered by Charlotte Dravet
in 1987.
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Comsequences O Epileptic crisis starting the first year
of life.
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O The first attacks are rekated to the onest of fever.
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O Can lead to epilectic status in more than 20 minutes duration.
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O Speech is one of the most affected faculties.
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Facts O A kid with Dravet has to sleep with an adult or if
nor it could die because of the seizures
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What are seizures?O An epileptic seizure, also known as an
epileptic fit, is a brief episode of signs or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain
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This is the logo of the foundation
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This is my cousin who has syndrome of Dravet
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