- Basic epilepsy facts
- Telling prison staff about your epilepsy and people who can help
- Diagnosing epilepsy
- Types of seizures
- Women with epilepsy
- Epilepsy medicine
- Why epileptic seizures can happen
- First aid for seizures
- More epilepsy facts can be found on our website.
Basic epilepsy facts
- Nearly half a million people in the UK have epilepsy.
- Epilepsy is a tendency to have seizures (fits).
- There are many different types of seizures.
- You don’t have to be born with epilepsy. It can start at any time.
- Some people lose consciousness in a seizure but not everybody does.
- In some types of seizure, the person knows what’s happening.
We can provide references and information on the source material we use to write our epilepsy advice and information pages. Please contact our Epilepsy Helpline by email at helpline@epilepsy.org.uk.
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B136.01
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Updated August 2011To be reviewed August 2013

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