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Cannot Move Mouth Or Body, Hand Becomes Claw-shaped After Drinking Alcohol. Worried
My mum for a while now for some reason every time she drinks a lot of alcahol has a funny few minutes where she looks like she,s had a stroke ,her mouth won t move n her body can t much,and her hand goes into aclaw shape but then after a few seconds she comes out of it,this can happen afew times a night and is normal now to people around her but I m worried its something deeper,plz help,Emma.
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Hello,
It is not at all normal to have such episodes of posturing of hand, motionlessness. It probably is a seizure. Heavy alcohol binge is very well known to precipitate seizures. She needs to be evalauted for the same. At the very least she should avoid this habit of heavy alcohol intake. Sometimes a small seizure may propagate and become full blown, which can be life threatening event.
Good luck.
It is not at all normal to have such episodes of posturing of hand, motionlessness. It probably is a seizure. Heavy alcohol binge is very well known to precipitate seizures. She needs to be evalauted for the same. At the very least she should avoid this habit of heavy alcohol intake. Sometimes a small seizure may propagate and become full blown, which can be life threatening event.
Good luck.
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