The Three Most Important Questions

As soon as you or someone you love is diagnosed with epilepsy, you must immediately start to answer these three questions:

1. What should you do to help the person in seizure?

2. What should you do to prevent or minimize further seizures?

3. Is it really epilepsy?

Why should not we answer the third question first? There are four reasons. First, because the third question is much more difficult and take more time to answer --false diagnosis is very common for epilepsy. Second, epilepsy might worsen as time goes by and the probability for remission decreases as number and frequency of seizures increases. Third, risk of death in epilepsy is imminent and must be managed immediately. Fourth, very few people know how to help the person in seizure during the attack, and they even may do some mistakes that might endanger the person's life. Therefore, it is immediately important to assume that you or the person you love has been really hit with epilepsy, and hence knowledge about how to help during seizure attack dan prevention or minimization of further seizures are top priority.

That is why I put the third question as the third question, not as the first or second question.

In the next post, I will briefly review the risk of death in epilepsy. After that, I will explain how we can help the person during seizure attack.