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Anti-seizure medications (ASMs) are widely treated as time-critical medicines. A missed or late dose can increase the risk of seizures. Every care provider supporting people with epilepsy needs a clear medication policy covering prevention, immediate escalation for professional advice, recording, and learning from incidents. Staff should never decide on their own whether to give a…

Category: Uncategorised

Pupils with epilepsy should be able to take part in school trips and residential visits. With good planning, most can do so safely. Schools should review the pupil’s Individual Healthcare Plan (IHP) early, complete a trip-specific risk assessment, make sure trained staff and any rescue medication go with the pupil at all times, and agree…

Category: Advice, Education

Around one in five people with a learning disability also have epilepsy, compared with roughly one in 100 of the general population. Seizures in this group are more likely to be missed, misattributed or under-treated, and epilepsy is one of the leading avoidable causes of death among people with a learning disability. Well-trained staff, accurate…

Category: Living with Epilepsy

In most cases, yes. Epilepsy is not automatically classed as a disability from the point of diagnosis, but it will usually meet the Equality Act 2010 definition because the law requires the effects to be assessed as though anti-seizure medications (ASMs) were not being taken. That triggers a duty on employers to make reasonable adjustments.…

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Non-epileptic seizures, usually called functional or dissociative seizures, can look almost identical to seizures caused by epilepsy but work in a completely different way. They are involuntary and real, they are not caused by disrupted electrical activity in the brain, and anti-seizure medications (ASMs) do not control them. The immediate first aid is much the…

Category: Seizures

A tonic-clonic seizure is the type most people picture: the body stiffens, then jerks rhythmically, and the person is unconscious throughout. Most last between one and three minutes. The response is to time it, protect the person from injury, avoid restraining them, place them in the recovery position once the movements stop, and call 999…

Category: Seizures