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| Epilepsy in Childhood
About 300,000 American children under the age of 14 have epilepsy. It affects children at different ages, and in different ways. For some, it will be a temporary problem, easily controlled with medication, outgrown after a few years. For others, it may be a lifelong challenge affecting many areas of life.
Epilepsy in Childhood my be associated with serious, difficult-to-treat epilepsy syndromes, including infantile spasms, Dravet syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Sturge Weber syndrome, genetically related conditions, and developmental disorders. Click on each syndrome for more information.
To find out more about issues for children with epilepsy, click here on children's section.
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Infants and Epilepsy
Seizure incidence peaks in the first year of life and remains at a high level up to about age 4 years old. Some seizure syndromes occur at specific developmental stages and at no other time in life. They include syndromes most commonly associated with neonates less than 2 months old, infants between the ages of 2 months and 1 year old, and toddlers between ages 1 year old and 4 years old.
Seizure diagnosis in babies and infants is complicated because babies and infants cannot yet adequately communicate to others what they are experiencing or how they feel as a reaction to various diagnostic tests. For more information about Infants and Epilepsy, click on the picture to the right.
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