What Doctors Don't Tell YouThere 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 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
EPILEPSY: Guess what? Yup, the drugs don't work (part 4,791)
EPILEPSY: If you’ve been told your child has it, he probably hasn’t
At the first sign of an elevated temperature, worried parents attempt to treat a fever. However, fever is the body’s in-built infection control.
My daughter had a febrile seizure on her first birthday, less than two weeks after MMR vaccination. Of my three children, she’s the only one who has had convulsions. Her early childhood health was poor, with recurring ear infections, high...
New evidence has confirmed what observation has shown for years - that the MMR vaccine significantly raises the risk of febrile seizures.
