Patient's question:
What are the precautions to ensure safety for children with epilepsy? My child has epilepsy and is currently undergoing treatment. I don't know when it will be cured. When it recurs, the head tends to tilt to one side and the eyes roll back. What kind of help is needed: What are the precautions to ensure safety for children with epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
Parents should not stop giving medication to their children on their own. Because the duration of pediatric epilepsy is long, long-term medication treatment is required. Families are aware that "all medicines have three poisons," so many parents worry that long-term medication for their children may cause physical harm. Once the condition shows improvement, they stop the medication, which results in recurrent epilepsy. In fact, the medication for treating epilepsy does not affect the child's development, so medication should not be stopped, as this can lead to mental impairment in the child.