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Epilepsy Treatments: Find The Right Medication

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes repeated episodes of unprovoked seizures. Your doctor or nurse may refer to epilepsy medications as antiep...

Child, Sports, and Epilepsy

To the parents of a child with epilepsy, the world may seem an especially dangerous place. There are a few extra precautions that parents of childr...

Epilepsy Drugs for Children

Common epilepsy drugs for partial or tonic-clonic seizures include brivaracetam (Briviact), carbamazepine (Carbatrol or Tegretol), phenytoin (Dilan...

If Your Child Has Epilepsy

If your child has epilepsy, your to-do list is different from that of a parent of a child that doesn't have it. Having epilepsy may place restricti...

Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Epilepsy

Some people with epilepsy turn to complementary therapies like acupuncture, vitamins, and supplements, and stress-relief techniques to help manage ...

What to Do If Your Child Has An Epileptic Seizure

Most epileptic seizures are over so quickly that you don't really have much time to do anything. After it's over, you simply make sure that the chi...

What to Do When Someone Has a Seizure

People are rarely aware of what's happening. These are frightening to watch and can be an emergency. This type is most likely to result in a trip t...

Drugs for Children with Epilepsy

This means that it could be the only epilepsy drug your child would take. Many epilepsy drugs cause specific side effects, and you should ask your ...

Treatment

Multiple subpial transection (MST) is a surgery used to control brain seizures in people with epilepsy who don't respond to medication. In this sur...

Management & Support

Here are some suggestions to help make your home safer for someone with epilepsy.

Epilepsy and Your Child's School

Explain that your child has epilepsy. Turk offers this example: If your daughter has a seizure in class and the teacher isn't informed about epilep...

Seizures in Children

What happens inside your child's brain during a seizure? The problem may be with an uncontrolled firing of neurons in the brain that triggers a sei...