What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ My four-year-old daughter started having seizures last April. In just 14 months, she has had a total of eight, one every two weeks. She had just started being vaccinated,
Besides vaccines, increasing evidence points to diet and allergies as a cause of epilepsy. (See Alternatives, p 9, for the evidence linking this condition with allergies, particularly to gluten-c ...
WHEN THE WORM TURNS, the doctor diagnoses epilepsy
There are alternatives to medication (or surgery) for the treatment of epilepsy. Many of these can be used safely alongside conventional medications.
Each type of antiepileptic drug brings with it the risk of different types of seizures.
New studies suggest that many of the available antiepileptic drugs, especially the older ones, can have other negative effects besides worsening seizures. A range of epilepsy drugs can cause
New evidence shows that vaccines, allergies or nutritional deficiencies may bring on epileptic seizures, and certain simple dietary changes may control them without drugs. ...
The actual causes of seizures are still relatively unknown. The majority of patients with epilepsy can identify at least one precipitant that can trigger or exacerbate seizures
It is the second most common neurological disorder after stroke - affecting one in 2000 people. However, this is not a simple disorder, but a group of central nervous system (CNS) disorders
Children with epilepsy taking the drug vigabatrin to control seizures may end up with retinal damage, according to new findings.
