Benign Childhood Epilepsy

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Benign Childhood Epilepsy
Benign Childhood Epilepsy

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Benign Rolandic Epilepsy, Thank Goodness

It came seemingly out of nowhere; to our knowledge, she’d never had one before. (I referred to it then as a grand mal seizure, but I now know it was actually what’s called a tonic-clonic seizure.) The weeks that followed made us feel like we were traveling through a maze characterized by a set of unmarked doors at each turn. Each door we opened only led to rooms with more doors, and we feared as we moved forward that our ultimate destination would turn out to be a dark, ominous place.

But we were lucky.

The maze of diagnostic tests and consultations led to us to the room of benign rolandic epilepsy, something none of us had heard of before. Given all of the terrifying possibilities…

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 Benign Rolandic Epilepsy, Thank Goodness

The maze of diagnostic tests and consultations led to us to the room of benign rolandic epilepsy, something none of us had heard of before. Given all of the terrifying possibilities raised by a sudden, significant seizure with no prior history—I won’t list them here; I’ll let you imagine them, as we did—this was one of best answers we could have received to the question, “What happened?”

Epilepsy Foundation

Benign childhood focal seizures are the most common and probably the most fascinating and rewarding topic in pediatric epileptology. They affect 25% of children with non-febrile seizures. Seizures are infrequent, usually nocturnal, and remit within 1 to 3 years from onset. Brief or prolonged seizures, even status epilepticus, may be the only clinical event of the patient's lifetime

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