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    Ask your doctor: How rare movement disorder symptoms different of seizures and usefulness of inhalers for asthma patients

    The rare movement disorders are mostly mistaken for seizures and patients have very little understanding of these conditions.

    Ask your doctor: How rare movement disorder symptoms different of seizures and usefulness of inhalers for asthma patients
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    How are rare movement disorder symptoms different from seizures? - Rajan K. Pammal

    The rare movement disorders are mostly mistaken for seizures and patients have very little understanding of these conditions. Several tools like Video- EEG (Electroenceph alography) are very useful to distinguish seizures from non-epileptic involuntary movements. Such technology helps to diagnose such unusual disorders. Video-EEG detects abnormalities in the brain waves, or in the electrical activity of the brain to capture episodes and proved that these episodes did not have an epileptic basis.

    - Dr Aravindan Selvaraj, Executive Director, Kauvery Hospital

    How useful are inhalers for asthma patients? Can alternative medications be taken? - Kalpana V, Anna Nagar

    Inhalers deliver the drug directly to the lungs and works to control asthma by preventing it. relieving symptoms, and reducing flare-ups. Although asthma is not curable, it is possible to gain control over it and lead a normal active life. Here, the correct treatment and adherence to asthma management are crucial. The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines recommend inhalers as a safe and effective way to control asthma as it reaches your lungs directly and starts acting immediately.

    - B Kalaikovan, Pulmonologist, Kovan's Chest and Sleep Care Centre, Chennai

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