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Epilepsy in Children and Teens


Epilepsy (for Teens) | Nemours KidsHealth

What Causes Epilepsy? · flashing or bright lights · a lack of sleep · stress · overstimulation (like staring at a computer screen or playing video games for too ...

Epilepsy in Children and Teens: Diagnosis & Treatment

How is epilepsy diagnosed? Epilepsy is often diagnosed if a child or teen: ... Any child without a known diagnosis of epilepsy who experiences a ...

Teens - Epilepsy Foundation

For children entering their teens with good self-esteem and a sense of independence, the impact of epilepsy can be minimal. But epilepsy can aggravate or create ...

Epilepsy in Children and Teens - Yale Medicine

A recurrent seizure disorder that results from abnormal electric brain activity. Symptoms may include episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, ...

Seizures and Epilepsy in Children | Johns Hopkins Medicine

Epilepsy is a brain condition that causes a child to have recurring seizures over time. These seizures can't be linked to a short-term (acute) illness.

Learn More – Epilepsy in children: Types and treatment options - NCBI

About 0.5% of all children and teenagers have epilepsy. Mild forms hardly affect their daily life. But if the epilepsy regularly causes more ...

Epilepsy in Children: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Types

Epilepsy in children is a brain condition that causes seizures. The cells in your child's brain create a sudden burst of irregular electrical activity and a ...

How to Support a Child or Teen with Epilepsy - HealthyChildren.org

Tips to encourage & support your child with epilepsy · Learn as much as you can about epilepsy. · Avoid saying things that could make your child ...

Epilepsy and Teens - WebMD

Teens, Epilepsy, Alcohol, and Drugs ... Alcohol and a number of drugs, legal and illegal, can increase the risk of seizures. Although a lot of ...

Kids | Epilepsy Foundation

Epilepsy in Childhood About 470000 American children under the age of 14 have epilepsy. It affects children at different ages and in different ways.

Epilepsy in children - Better Health Channel

Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) – these seizures usually start between ages 2 to 12. Absence seizures are very brief – the child will suddenly stop what they ...

Teens with Epilepsy: 5 Ways Parents Can Help

Teens with Epilepsy: 5 Ways Parents Can Help · Stress consistency. The single most important aspect of controlling seizures is taking medications regularly and ...

Types of Epilepsy & Seizure Disorders in Children

Certain other types of seizures and epilepsy syndromes more commonly start in childhood. They include febrile seizures, Landau-Kleffner syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut ...

Epilepsy in Childhood and Adolescence - PMC - PubMed Central

Most patients with epilepsy undergo normal cognitive development. This relatively good prognosis contrasts with persistent public stigma surrounding the ...

Epilepsy - AAP

Epilepsy is the most common childhood brain disorder in the United States, impacting 470,000 children and adolescents aged 0-17 years.

Managing Your Child's Epilepsy

The risk of death or serious injury from a seizure is very low in most children. Even if more seizures occur, they usually are short and stop on their own.

Epilepsy in adolescence

However, all of these can make seizures more likely to happen. Some young people find epilepsy difficult to live with, especially if they have ...

Epilepsy (for Parents) | Nemours KidsHealth

Kids with Down syndrome, autism, and some metabolic disorders also may have epilepsy. Some types of epilepsy run in families. More than half of epilepsy cases ...

Adolescent Epilepsy Care - UCLA Health

Adolescent Epilepsy Care. Specialists in the Adolescent Epilepsy Center assess all the physical, behavioral and social factors that affect teens' wellness and ...

Seizures in Children: Diagnosis, Causes, Signs, Treatments - WebMD

Simple partial seizures, in which a child may have a sudden, overwhelming sense of terror, are especially frightening. One of the problems with ...