Patient's question:
I recently had a classmate who was diagnosed with epilepsy, and I'm a bit worried about getting infected myself because I had two classmates at school who also had epilepsy. I'm wondering if epilepsy is actually contagious. How is epilepsy usually transmitted?Doctor's answer:
Epilepsy is not a contagious disease; it is a condition caused by abnormal electrical impulses in brain cells, leading to either generalized or partial seizures. This is an abnormality in the brain's nervous system. If your classmate has epilepsy, it will absolutely not affect your daily life, nor will it infect you. It is not a contagious disease. It is caused by abnormal electrical impulses in his brain cells and nerve cells.