Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health and can help you feel your best. This may reduce the risk of seizures for some people with epilepsy. Although there is ...

Changes in hormone levels means that epilepsy treatment may need to change through a woman’s life. In this section, when we refer to women, this also includes girls of childbearing age. Epilepsy can ...

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Elijah was a passionate and kind-hearted young man, whose life was tragically cut short on Father's Day this year (2024). This is the story of how his local community came together, to fill the void ...

Epilepsy Society has been campaigning for many years to raise awareness of the risks many epilepsy drugs pose to babies during pregnancy. Public Health Scotland (PHS) has released a new report ...

Here is a list of anti-seizure medication (ASM), previously called anti-epileptic drugs or AEDs, with links to information about what type of seizures they are used for, doses, and possible side ...

GPs estimate they spend 10-20% of their time on admin, as well as tasks generated by issues with primary and secondary care communication. The Health and Social Care Secretary announced that the ...

There are more than 600,000 people in the UK with epilepsy, that’s more than 1 in 100 of us. For one third, their seizures do not respond to available drugs and they live with ongoing seizures. This ...

As Health Secretary Wes Streeting launched his Red Tape Challenge to free up more GP time for patients, the Epilepsy Society issued a sharp reminder that resolving medication shortages would also ...

The ketogenic diet is one treatment option for children or adults with epilepsy whose seizures are not controlled with anti-seizure medications (ASMs). The diet may help to reduce the number or ...

Different epilepsies are due to many different underlying causes. The causes can be complex, and sometimes hard to identify. A person might start having seizures because they have one or more of the ...