Is your child behaving unusually: experiencing unexplained staring spells or full body shaking? Are you worried whether your child has epilepsy? If your child has epilepsy, are you afraid to send him/ ...

Febrile seizures are a common occurrence in young children, typically affecting those between six months and five years of age. These seizures are triggered by fever, often due to infections ...

Lessens or stops communication between hemispheres Certain types of seizures can be stopped, and other types become less frequent. This surgery is mostly done in children whose seizures start on one ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Doctors could soon reduce epilepsy misdiagnoses by up to 70% using a new tool that turns routine electroencephalogram, or EEG, tests that appear normal into highly accurate ...

An Australian influencer who allegedly 'tortured' her 1-year-old daughter by making her sick amid a scam to get donations and ...

The ketogenic diet, or ketogenic diet therapy, is sometimes used as a treatment for epilepsy. For some children and adults, the ketogenic diet helps to control their seizures. There are different ...

An absence seizure causes you to blank out or stare into space for a few seconds. They can also be called petit mal seizures. Absence seizures are most common in children. They usually don’t cause any ...

Maternal psychologic distress between the first and second halves of pregnancy is associated with epilepsy in children aged 1 to 3.

THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Disability is a significant risk factor for lower quality of life (QOL) and increased caregiver burden among children with epilepsy and their caregivers, ...

Minnie Granger was suffering over 100 seizures a day before she was prescribed cannabidiol, but her mum wants a medication ...

Almost 10,000 counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes and other tobacco and nicotine-based products have been seized following a ...