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What Causes Near-Fainting And Fainting Spells? One usually recovers quickly from fainting or near-fainting, but some people may have low blood pressures for up to 30 minutes and may feel groggy for the rest of the day. Causes. The most common cause of blackout episodes is a sudden reduction of blood flow to the brain, which is maybe due to: 1  sudden drop in blood pressure. 2  sudden change in heart rhythm. 3  postural hypotension (drop in blood pressure associated with sudden change in posture)
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Causes Search entire site. Migraine - Causes. The exact cause of migraines is unknown, but they're thought to be the result of abnormal brain activity temporarily affecting nerve signals, chemicals and blood vessels in the brain.
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Cause of Mini-Strokes What Is the Cause of Mini-Strokes? A transient ischemic attack (also known as a TIA or mini-stroke) is caused by a temporary lack of oxygen- or nutrient-rich blood to a part of the brain. This lack of blood flow occurs because a blood vessel becomes severely narrowed or blocked.
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- TIA by the numbers. TIAs are usually caused by one of three things: 1  Low blood flow at a narrow part of a major artery carrying blood to the brain, such as the carotid artery.  A blood clot in another part of the body (such as the heart) breaks off, travels to the brain, and blocks a blood vessel in the brain.
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Alcohol Induced Amnesia (Blackouts, Memory Loss) Usually at these lower levels it is partial memory loss to a minor degree that a person may be unaware of it since it would not severely impair the recollection of events. Women At Greater Risk It has been observed that women are more prone to blackouts than men which can be explained by gender-related physiological differences such as a lower body weight and lower levels of the enzyme needed to metabolize alcohol.
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What Causes Seizures? Low Brain CO2 and Oxygen Levels and Epilepsy Among other factors, the main effects of hypocapnia caused by hyperventilation in relation to the seizures cause are: - increased excitability of nerve cells that lowers seizure threshold. - reduced brain-oxygen level and increased cellular acidity (low pH in cells) - reduced glucose availability for the brain.
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Alcohol Induced Amnesia (Blackouts, Memory Loss) Alcohol Induced Amnesia (Blackouts, Memory Loss) It is not unusual to experience difficulty in remembering events when you were extremely intoxicated. This can occur with both alcohol and drugs. The amount of alcohol that may cause this type of memory loss varies from one person to another. However, it mainly occurs with drinking large quantities of alcohol over short periods of time and may result in complete memory loss for a specific period or only partial memory loss during that time. Contrary to popular belief, this memory loss is not a result of alcohol killing brain cells.
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Blurred vision, Distortion of part of visual field, Flickering lights in vision and Loss of side vision Blurred vision, Distortion of part of visual field, Flickering lights in vision and Loss of side vision WebMD Symptom Checker helps you find the most common medical conditions indicated by the symptoms blurred vision, distortion of part of visual field, flickering lights in vision and loss of side vision including Transient ischemic attack (mini-stroke), Diabetes, type 2, and Astigmatism.
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Vision problems Damage from optic neuritis is self-limiting and in most cases, vision returns to normal or near normal. Becoming overheated, whether through exercise, during hot humid weather, or from fever, can cause a flare-up of visual symptoms (Uhthoff’s phenomenon) until the body temperature returns to normal.
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Thompson Eye Clinic Sudden vision loss is usually attributable to ischemia, or a reduction of the amount of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues of the eyes, resulting in temporary or permanent damage to the retina. It is like a stroke of the eye. Ischemia has several causes and can appear in different forms.
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Blackouts Blackouts: Loss of consciousness leading to a loss of memory of a specific time. See detailed information below for a list of 38 causes of Blackouts, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes.» Review Causes of Blackouts: Causes | Symptom Checker ».lackouts: Loss of consciousness leading to a loss of memory of a specific time. See detailed information below for a list of 38 causes of Blackouts, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes. » Review Causes of Blackouts: Causes | Symptom Checker ».
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- Research the causes of these symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Blackouts: 1  Dizziness (1357 causes). 2  Fainting (1326 causes). 3  Seizures (2418 causes). 4  Head injury (3 causes). 5  Brain injury. 6  Syncope (2084 causes). 7  Giddiness and Feeling Faint. 8  First Seizure.
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- Dizziness and blackouts are symptoms of many medical conditions. They occur when not enough blood reaches the brain or when there are electrical disturbances in the brain. Most causes can be treated successfully, but some are more serious. Dizziness is a feeling of faintness, feeling light-headed, and spinning or rocking movements when you're still.
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Hypocapnia However, hypocapnia causes cerebral vasoconstriction, leading to cerebral hypoxia and this can cause transient dizziness, visual disturbances, and anxiety. A low partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the blood also causes alkalosis (because CO 2 is acidic in solution), leading to lowered plasma calcium ions and increased nerve and muscle excitability.
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Heart Reduced brain oxygen causing syncope is due to a sudden drop in blood flow to your brain. This may be caused by: 1  drop in blood pressure. 2  changes of blood volume.
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- Alcohol induced blackouts generally tend to occur when the alcohol in your bloodstream spikes too high and too rapidly. This exposes your brain to a sudden spike in BAC (blood alcohol content). Most people can avoid alcohol blackouts fairly easily by following a few simple drinking rules to avoid spiking their BAC.
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Nocturnal Seizure: Causes & Symptoms Nocturnal seizures seem to be caused by changes in electrical activity in the brain that occur during certain stages of sleep. They are associated with certain types of epilepsy and result in sleep disturbance. The lack of sleep affects concentration and performance at school or work.
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Power outage Transient fault. A power outage (also called a power cut, a power blackout, power failure or a blackout) is a short-or long-term loss of the electric power to an area. There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network. Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission lines, substations or other parts of the distribution system, a short circuit, or the overloading of electricity mains.
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- Causes of Blackouts. The most common cause of a blackout is called syncope, (“sin-co-pee”). Syncope describes blacking out because of a sudden drop in blood flow to the brain. Usually syncope is so-called “Reflex Syncope”. This is the cause of fainting. The blackout occurs because blood pressure suddenly drops and the brain is temporarily starved of oxygen and glucose. Although a faint can cause accidental injury, it is not dangerous of itself, provided the patient can lie down flat.
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Blackouts Blackouts: Loss of consciousness leading to a loss of memory of a specific time. See detailed information below for a list of 38 causes of Blackouts, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes. » Review Causes of Blackouts: Causes | Symptom Checker ».
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Fainting Collapse The most common cause of blacking out is fainting. Other causes include epileptic seizures, syncope due to anxiety (psychogenic pseudosyncope) and other rare causes of faints. Other causes of blacking out may be due to low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) and lack of oxygen (hypoxia) from a variety of causes.
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Blacking Out, Fainting, or Loss of Consciousness Blacking Out, Fainting, or Loss of Consciousness. Getting Started. Welcome. The two main reasons for blacking out are insufficient blood flow to the brain and abnormal electrical activity within the brain (a seizure). While both of these sound scary, in reality most episodes of blacking out are not related to life threatening health problems.
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- There are 133 conditions associated with blackouts (memory time loss), dizziness, headache and nausea or vomiting. The links below will provide you with more detailed information on these medical conditions from the WebMD Symptom Checker and help provide a better understanding of causes and treatment of these related conditions.
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Causes of Faint, Fainting Spells, Pass Out, Passing Out, Feeling Faint, Syncope Symptoms Then when you actually faint, you lose control of your muscles. Thus, falling is a likely scenario. Reduced brain oxygen causing syncope is due to a sudden drop in blood flow to your brain. Numerous causes can be behind your feeling faint or fainting symptoms. In some cases, especially for the elderly, heart rate and blood vessels don’t react fast enough for their brain’s need of oxygen. Cardiovascular caused syncope are the most serious types of fainting disorders.
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Coughing Fits causing temporary blackoutsdrderf Oct 07, 2006 Coughing Fits causing temporary blackouts. drderf. Over the last 2 weeks, I have had 5 attacks of blacking out after extreme coughing. These blackouts last for just seconds and seem to be increasing in frequency. I have been Rx'd Singular, nexium, a narcotic cought suppresent, nasocort, prednisone.
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Blackout (drug-related amnesia) Blackouts are most frequently associated with GABAergic drugs. Blackouts are frequently described as having effects similar to that of anterograde amnesia, in which the subject cannot recall any events after the event that caused amnesia. Research on alcohol blackouts was begun by E. M. Jellinek in the 1940s.