The Psychosocial Impact Of Childhood Epilepsy

Imagine walking down the hallway at a brand new school on your first day. You just moved to town and you are hoping to make some new friends. All of your class have been great so far and you think that this might be the best school year yet; until, you have a seizure.You have suffered from them since you were eight years old and you have always found them embarrassing and uncomfortable. How would you feel if your new friends pointed and stared while this happened? Unfortunately, this is a reality for the near 600 million people worldwide who suffer from epilepsy. Epilepsy is an incurable condition of the brain that has been affecting people’s lives for centuries.

Each of the types also present different clinically. There are two main types of epilepsy. The first type is generalized epilepsy and is not tied to a specific area of the brain, and the second is focal or partial epilepsy which begins in a certain lobe and highly developed areas. Generalized epilepsy is then further broken down into idiopathic and symptomatic. During idiopathic seizures the cause of the episode is unknown, and the brain is behaving normally between seizures. Whereas, during symptomatic seizures there is a known cause of the seizure which is due to a structural brain abnormality (“Pediatric Epilepsy & Seizures”,

“People who experience seizures know the storm may come. Still, they embrace each day as if it will not.” This is how I feel in my day to day struggle. I was diagnosed with Epilepsy on August 28th, 2016. My day was supposed to be amazing, but then everything changed.

What is optimism? Optimism is reaching deep down and finding the confidence and hopefulness in yourself to overcome whatever may be holding your back. Challenges are constantly being thrusted into one’s life, and the difficulty of them is what makes us strive to get through it. Whether the challenge be big or small, there is always something to look forward to in life.

Epilepsy is a growing disorder in the world. Many people tend to be unaware they have epilepsy due to no diagnosis or believing their seizures are something simple. The epilepsy community of Texas is in great need due to the increasing costs of medication and medical service, lack of programs for diagnosed children and insignificant increase in education concerning epilepsy. The Epilepsy Foundation of Texas (EFTX) and Epilepsy Foundation of Central and South Texas (EFCST) were established in order to help patients with these types of problems. These two affiliates of the national Epilepsy Foundation serve the entire state of Texas. Both organizations have the same mission: the Epilepsy Foundation leads the fight to stop seizures, find a cure and overcome the challenges created by epilepsy.

Epilepsy is characterized as a brain disorder in which you have a tendency to trigger seizures. It occurs when there is a abnormal or excessive amount of electrical activity in the brain, and is usually diagnosed after a person has two or more seizures that are not caused by medical conditions. Epilepsy is very common in society today. 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime and 65 million people already have epilepsy worldwide. After any type of epileptic seizure episodes of sensory disturbances, loss of consciousness, convulsions, and many other symptoms can spark.

Epilepsy affects daily life choices in a variety of ways, from career choices, driving capability, types of medications, ability to drink alcohol and also pregnancy choices. Having epilepsy can affect people of all generations from young to old. Epilepsy is a common medical condition. The point of my paper is to inform others of how epilepsy can affect the life choices of a person and, how they have to cope with the decisions they make in their life. Epilepsy is a very hard disorder to live with emotionally, physically and mentally.

Epilepsy is a condition in which the afflicted person experiences recurrent seizures, of which there are many varieties. These seizures have many causes (but the mechanism of some of these causes are still unknown) and treatment options. In some cases they can even be completely controlled. However, when they are not controlled it is very important to react in the correct way otherwise there is a risk of further endangering the patient who is having a seizure.

Because of this I thought that it was a very common disease in the United States. I have had a seizure myself just last year, but since it was just the first time, there was no reason to visit a doctor. After some research, I discovered that the incidence rate of epilepsy in America today is approximately 150,000. It is higher in children and older adults. After about the age of ten years old, the amount of new cases tends to level out until around seventy years old. The prevalence of epilepsy in America today is about 2.2 million people (epilepsy). I have not discovered any trends relating epilepsy to race or geographic regions. Many times those that are affected by this disease have no reason so it can affect any

While previous studies assessing the state of thyroid function in epileptic children suggest that levels of thyroid hormone are not directly related to epilepsy, some changes in the thyroid function could be attributed to the administered AEDs[17].

Hello Sergine, even though I know these drugs are addictive I see that this drug has done good. It showed that epilepsy can be dealt with. But at the same time it has caused individuals to use it for recreational use which even though it might have caused some good it might have affected some people's

Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, BCECT (also called rolandic epilepsy, RE), is an idiopathic focal epilepsy of childhood and its underlying structural causes and possible genetic aetiology are unknown. It is the most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood and accounts for 15%—24% of all paediatric epilepsy cases between 5 and 14 years of age, and there is a male predominance. The prevalence of BCECT is estimated to be about 2% in children and it is four times more common than typical absence of epilepsy. It is considered an age-dependent epileptic syndrome with a high genetic predisposition (Shields and Snead, 2009; Miziara et al., 2012).

! Epilepsy is a condition where the patient has seizures. This condition was one of

Pediatric epilepsy, which affects approximately 1% of U.S. children1, is one of the main contributors to avoidable hospitalizations and emergency department visits.2 Poor seizure control and repeat admissions not only increase demand on health care providers, but they negatively affect long-term seizure control3 and place a significant financial4 and emotional5 burden on patients and families. Inadequate education may be responsible for many of these unnecessary admissions. In fact, one study showed that only 29% of caregivers of children with epilepsy knew the names and doses of their child’s medications.6 By improving patient education, we may be able to improve self-management and reduce health-care utilization. In other diseases, educational

Your body is made up of nerves from your head down to your feet. These nerves control all aspects of the body even communication so are very important. If they are working proper we go about are daily live without noticing that they are working. It’s when we have problems that we stop and try to figure out what is wrong. We go to the doctor tell him are symptoms, and he then begins the diagnosis of which disease. One of the major diseases that affect nerves is multiple sclerosis (MS) and is also thought to be associated with Epilepsy.