Seizures occur because of a bursting of simultaneous and contradictory signals from brain cells. Diabetes and seizures are two conditions that go hand in hand. In fact, both high and low blood sugar levels can cause diabetes seizures, as well as convulsions, coma, or even death.

If you know or are close to someone who is prone to seizures in diabetes, learn as much as you can so that you can help them through their seizures and diabetes attacks. Seizures diabetes characteristics may (but not always) include:

• Violent convulsions
• Muscle twitches or jerks
• Loss of muscle tone
• Rigid muscle
• Altered behavior, sensations, or awareness
• Numbness
• Brief loss of memory
• Detection of a strange odor or flash of light when there is none
• Panic attack like symptoms

A seizure can last just a few seconds, or it may continue until medical attention is received. There is really no telling. All …