Where To Get A Service Dog For Seizures

Alert, comfort, and assist

Seizures can take different forms and affect people in many different ways. Seizure discharges are often referred to as electrical storms in the brain. Some people are aware of an oncoming seizure while others have no warning and the seizure starts with a loss of consciousness.

During a seizure, the person often blacks out or seems distracted and confused. Their senses are contradistinct, and and so smells, sounds, tastes, and sights might seem different. They may have a hard time talking and exist unable to control their movements. Twitching and hasty movements might occur or the person could suddenly become very rigid, causing him/her to autumn.

In one case the seizure is over, some people recover immediately while others accept minutes or hours to feel dorsum to normal. A person might be boring to respond, seem confused, sleepy or dizzy. They might have memory loss, feel depressed, lamentable, upset, scared, anxious or embarrassed and frustrated. They might be hobbling from a autumn or impact on objects. They may be thirsty, accept a headache or an urgent need to go to the bath.

How tin a domestic dog help with epileptic seizures?

Dogs tin be taught to alarm prior to a seizure and provide assistance during and later on the seizure

Studies proved that dogs tin can be taught to detect a specific scent before a seizure. At Medical Mutts, we take contributed to the first study showing the existence of a particular scent signature released when someone has a seizure. Our findings have since been corroborated by a new written report that not only confirmed our findings but also demonstrated that the smell associated with seizures is indeed released before the seizure happens. Although nosotros tin can't guarantee the alert due to personal variations between people, we've had an excellent success rate with our very unique training methods. The alert gives time to their person to lie down and avert injury.

The odour released before and during a seizure is the same no matter the seizure, making information technology possible to teach our dogs to detect any type of epileptic seizure. That beingness said, the frequency of the seizures will decide if we tin can railroad train a dog for you. Too frequent or not frequent enough (less than once a calendar month) will make information technology harder or sometimes incommunicable for the dogs to do their job.

Our seizure alert dogs are volition too perform different tasks during a seizure. Which task they will exist taught, volition depend on your individual needs and will be determined during the interview.

When the seizure happens, a seizure alert domestic dog tin can be taught to:

Lie down against the person during the seizure to prevent injury and provide condolement;
Get aid;
Printing a button to call 911 or a relative;
Get medication, food, or a drinkable after the seizure;
Provide comfort and companionship;
Deed as a caryatid to aid the person become upwards.

In improver to their skills to help with seizures, our seizure warning dogs are taught all the behaviors required to pass the Public Admission Test and meet or exceed the minimum standards of grooming established past the International Association of Assistance Dogs Partners (IAADP). Yous'll be able to safely and reliably take your service dog to work, to school, to the mall, eating place, etc.