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Can seizure cause death?

2018-09-14 13:37:21
Hi I am 46 year old male and recently I had a brain stroke, after which I sometimes have these attack of seizure. I do not know when the attack comes up and sometimes I also have injury if I am outside somewhere alone. Can these seizure attack cause death? How to avoid these attacks?
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See www.epilepsy.org.uk

Answered2018-09-17 10:20:32

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