The Internet and Telecommunications: Can They Be Causes of Epileptic Seizures?

The Internet and Telecommunications: Seizure Triggers?

    The trigger of a gun, when taken into context, is a subject that would be taken as hostile. It is the object which is the very starting point of a death or an injury; a crime or the practice of justice. But, for epileptics, another kind of trigger exists in the vocabulary of those suffering their unfortunate predicament. And this, too, is a point of origin for the occurrence of seizures. It is what is termed as “seizure triggers”.

    These are undetermined factors which causes abnormalities or irregular functions in the human brain which, consequently lead to the existence of epileptic attacks or seizures. Since it is understood as being a “case-to-case” basis from one person to another; there is no one finalized and general cause for the episodes experienced by the persons with seizure disorders.

    So many have been hypothesized or designated for a few individuals with the illness; perhaps one’s cranial reaction to flashing lights; intense physical stress; a specific odour; or a childhood head injury; and so many others. But would it not be a topic to ruminate over if the internet and such network communication frequencies were suspected of being another form of seizure triggers?

    If the brain is said to possess electrical charges in itself; without any such being inflicted or induced on it; perhaps another possibility is the hypothesis that the human brain is capable of acting as a radar or antennae which can pick up frequencies transmitted by technological equipment such as computers and/or cell phones. If it can take in sound by the ears; photosensitive subjects via the eyes; olfactory sensations by the nostrils and other such through the human body’s senses; and then automatically register the inputted content within the brain; there just might be a possibility that the signal transmission of phones and internet-related equipment can be detected by the brain.

    Would it not be a physical, or medical, hazard if the very technological advancements of the present day were the causes of epilepsy in certain individuals? It would be quite a chaotic issue of this possibility was ever discovered by the medical world. It would also be an irony if such informative sources such as the internet-with its details and records of illnesses and potential cures-was designated as worthy of criticism for being unfavorable to individuals with seizure disorders.

    If this contradiction ever became a reality, perhaps only two actions can be done; as in the days of old: let the masses choose to hang the epileptics or burn those who promote technological advancements at the stake.

    Yet, as in modern days, factories and bio-hazardous establishments exist with its detractors and supporters. So as carbon dioxide allows transportation for individuals and, at the same time, slowly cause the death of others; then telecom institutions and internet service providers can still be appreciated by the very same people who suffer the predicament of epilepsy because of it.

    Of course; the relation between the mentioned illness and the potential ‘seizure triggers’ have yet to be discovered.