Seizure Types
What are the different types of seizures?
• Generalized Tonic Clonic also known as Grand Mal • Absence also known as petit mal
• Complex Partial also known as psychomotor or temporal lobe
• Atonic Seizures also known as drop attacks
• Myoclonic Seizures
• Infantile Spasms
For more information on what different types of seizures look like and how to respond click here.
What are NEEs or (non-epileptic events), psychogenic seizures?
Nonepileptic seizures are episodes that briefly change a
person's behavior and may look like epileptic seizures. Click here to link to the national Epilepsy Foundation website for more
information about nonepileptic seizures.
Lifesaving Acts
Sometimes
news of dramatic lifesaving acts on the part of passers-by merely
perpetuate the myths surrounding epilepsy first aid. Stories about
people who save a life by keeping the person with epilepsy from
swallowing his tongue are not only inaccurate, but also damaging. They
produce a whole new set of misinformed people. Similarly, mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation is hardly ever needed in connection with a seizure.
Breathing is naturally depressed until the seizure ends, when it usually
begins again without assistance.
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