Read about what to do in case of a seizure to ensure your child's safety and comfort.
Read about the symptoms and causes of focal aware seizures (previously known as simple partial seizure) and how they are treated.
Learn how to cope with your child experiencing seizures as a result of a brain tumour, or as a reaction to brain tumour surgery.
Learn about what causes seizures, the different types of seizures and what the concept of the seizure threshold means.
Read about the symptoms, prevention, first aid treatment and proper care for a child experiencing febrile seizures.
Read about the signs and symptoms of different types of seizures.
Read about causes and symptoms of focal impaired awareness seizures and how they are treated.
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is rare in people with epilepsy. However, it is important to be aware of the risk factors and how to prevent it in your child.
Tonic-clonic seizures involve sudden muscle stiffening and contraction, and rhythmic twitching or jerking. Read about their causes and how they can be treated.
Read about causes and symptoms of myoclonic seizures and how they are treated.
Learn about the methods of diagnosis, an important stage in understanding the cause of your child's seizures.
The prognosis of an illness is a forecast of how it will develop and the outcome after treatment. Read about the factors that affect the prognosis of a child with epilepsy.
Read about the symptoms and causes of absence seizures and how best to help your child when they have one.
Read about the causes and symptoms of atonic seizures, or “drop attacks”, and how they are treated.
An overview of seizures and epilepsy, with information about treatment options.
Find out what happens when your child is admitted for a video EEG in the epilepsy monitoring unit.
Find out how seizures are classified, or grouped together and how they may impact a child.
Find contact information for poison centres in Canada. If your child is unconscious, not breathing or is having a seizure, call 911 immediately.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal seizures.
Find out how invasive monitoring uses electrodes directly inside your child's brain to pinpoint where seizures start. .
Learn some important things to keep in mind when making a decision about epilepsy surgery, such as surgery goals, risks and possible complications.
Learn about laser ablation, which is a minimally invasive brain surgery for treating drug-resistant seizures.
Learn how a SPECT scan helps identify where seizures start in the brain.
Driving safely is a serious responsibility for anyone with a licence. Here are a few precautions for someone with epilepsy to consider.
Read about keeping a child with epilepsy safe at home, at school and with friends.
