What can cause you to go into a coma besides brain trauma and overdose?

thanks for the info. can a high fever send you in a coma and if you are in a coma,can you breathe without the tube thingy?

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High high high fever will eventually cause you [not You, our theoretical patient] to have a convulsion. Of course, you already know what it is (shaky thingy, eyes rolling back, maybe even accompanied by a slimy thingy coming out of your mouth), but a single convulsion won’t send you to coma. HOWEVER, multiple, successive convulsions OR one, massive convulsion (happens when the fever is really really REALLY high) can fry the neurons (brain cells) and have you slip into a coma. It’s a pretty bad one, I should tell you that, because chances are, you’ll either wake up with a lot of malfunctions (can’t use your legs, can’t speak, etc. because of the fried brain cells) or you won’t wake up at all.

About the breathing thingy, it depends on what happened. Some coma patients won’t need the ventilating machine or the tube. But most often, they do. Because our breathing is made possible by the contraction of the diaphragm and the rib muscles. If you got paralyzed, these muscles will hardly even move, making breathing such an impossibility. So you’ll get attached to a mechanical ventilator and let the machine do the breathing for you.

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