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Transport can be a major issue for people with epilepsy, especially if seizures prevent them from holding a valid driving licence. In the current day, regularly using public transport can be just as expensive as owning and running a car. The price of bus and train fare has continued to rise, as has the cost…

Category: Living with Epilepsy

Benign Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy is a very rare epilepsy syndrome that affects boys much more commonly than girls. Children with this syndrome will often commence having seizures from the age of 4 month to 3 years. A third of children with this syndrome will have a family member who has epilepsy, although there is…

Category: Syndromes

We recently wrote a post detailing how people with epilepsy are more likely to experience depression. As a result of this, and other factors, this also means that people with epilepsy are also a higher risk of suicide. Epilepsy can affect a person’s health and wellbeing and it’s important that mental health is also monitored.…

Category: Living with Epilepsy

There are many potential triggers that could cause an individual to have a seizure. Triggers are not generalised across the epilepsy populations, therefore, individuals will experience specific types of triggers. However, some triggers are more common than others. For example, stress and sleep deprivation are two of the more common triggers. Another trigger that’s experienced…

Category: Seizures

Angelman Syndrome (AS) is a genetic disorder of which epilepsy is a common symptom. Epilepsy affects 7 out of 10 children who are diagnosed with AS. In less enlightened times it was also known as ‘Happy Puppet Syndrome’ as children are often happy and have jerking, puppet-like movements. However, this unofficial term is considered to…

Category: Syndromes

There are often different variations of anti-epileptic drugs (AED), this is because different brands may have slight bioavailability variations. Branded medication Once a new medication is developed, only the company that developed it are allowed to produce it, this is known as being ‘on patent’. After the patent runs out (10 years) other companies are…

Category: Treatments