Epilepsy Due to Water Immersion

Abstract
THE TERM "reflex" or "sensory epilepsy" is used to designate a convulsive attack precipitated by sensory stimulus. The particular sensory stimulus need not always produce the convulsive attack, but may do so only when certain environmental circumstances exist.1,2 The most frequent type of reflex epilepsy described is "photogenic epilepsy." This type has even been proved to be self-induced,3as well as being precipitated by reading4and watching television.5,6Audiogenic stimuli have been implicated in "musicogenic epilepsy" in other patients,7,8and "touch epilepsy" has been described.9 The skin and mucosa present a very wide area of distribution of sensory organs, but examples of convulsive seizures precipitated by pain, temperature, or touch are very rare. Most recorded cases have revealed the presence of a brain lesion. The following case report of epileptic attacks induced through immersion in water is presented to place it on record as a