Keira's seizures are always triggered by eating and drinking now.

The were just spontaneous (occurring without any triggers), but this is where they are at now. This is part of a study I found and I am putting it here so I can decipher it.

"Seizures induced by eating are characterized by seizures closely related to one or several aspects of eating. The clinical triggers of a seizure are usually stereotyped for each patient, but patients may have some points in common. Rare patients have seizures at the sight or smell of food; others may have them immediately after a heavy meal, suggesting gastric distension as a trigger (Gastaut and Poirier 1964). Seizures with eating are typically focal motor seizures, with or without auras or automatisms of temporolimbic type, and are almost always related to symptomatic epilepsy. Seizures induced by eating are usually associated with localized or regional EEG epileptiform activity either from temporolimbic structures or from suprasylvian regions in association with larger lesions. EEG epileptiform activity that is generalized from the start is rare.

Rémillard and associates suggested that patients with temporolimbic seizures activated by eating have fewer spontaneous attacks and are more likely to have such attacks from the onset of their epilepsy than are patients with extralimbic, usually suprasylvian, seizure onset who have less constant activation by eating. Patients with suprasylvian seizure onset usually have more obvious extratemporal structural lesions and possible activation by specific thalamocortical afferents (Remillard et al 1998). They may also have seizures with other forms of buccal stimulation such as tooth-brushing or kissing. Koutroumanidis and colleagues reported a case of adult-onset sensitivity to toothbrushing only, with normal imaging and interictal left frontal epileptiform activity, and suggested that this was cryptogenic reflex epilepsy (Koutroumanidis et al 2001). A prevalence of approximately 1 per 1000 to 2000 epileptic patients has been reported (Vizioli 1962; Nagaraja and Chand 1984). The unusually high figures reported for Sri Lanka seem related to an idiosyncratic definition and to ascertainment methods (Senanayake 1990)."

Seizures with eating are typically focal motor seizures, with or without auras or automatisms of temporolimbic type, and are almost always related to symptomatic epilepsy.