Originally Posted by
closetasfan
I traveled last week, a passenger in the row in front of me suffered multiple seizures in flight. After the third one they finally called for a medical professional on board. The flight did not divert, though it was held at the gate to get a medical professional. I did not realize they were seizures until the medical professional thing happened
Question is, how dangerous is this? If its very dangerous, I'm sure I'll let the flight attendants know in the future when I first see a sign of it, or is it controllable and ok to proceed to destination? I guess we had about two hours after the last incident until destination.
In nearly all cases, a short-lasting seizure in flight would not be dangerous, but there's certainly a small chance that it would be. Multiple seizures very well could be dangerous. I would only trust a neurologist or, perhaps, an ER physician or medical intensivist to say with confidence that multiple seizures in rapid succession were not dangerous.