27 year old woman pronounced dead after a tuina session Source Last Sunday (14 Feb) Ms Serene Lim Xinhui went for a Tuina (natural Chinese massage) session at the Integrated Chinese Medicine Clinic at Midpoint Orchard shopping mall. In a tragic turn of events, she died in the midst of the tuina session as she suffered from severe seizures. Ms Lim might have suffered from fatal case of epilepsy What caused the seizure was still unknown and will only be confirmed after the autopsy results. All seizures are due to abnormal neuronal brain activity and since The Straits Times reported that “her body shook violently and she slipped into a coma”, it is quite likely that she suffered a seizure due to the abnormalities neuronal activities in her brain. Source An epileptic seizure happens when there is an abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain which results in uncontrollable convulsions (tonic-clonic seizure) and in minor cases, a momentary loss of awareness (absence seizure). Since epilepsy happens because of the abnormal neuronal activities in the brain, it is quite safe to say that Ms Lim did not die because of the tuina session. However, a seizure in a one’s life does not mean that that […]
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