Epilepsy advice and information
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Advice and Information A to Z
Alcohol and recreational drugs
Benefits information for people with epilepsy
- Free prescriptions
- Disabled persons railcard
- Free bus travel
- Transport to work
- Disability Living Allowance/Attendance Allowance
Children
- Childhood syndromes
- Epilepsy in newborn babies
- Epilepsy and caring for children
- Kids' section
- Parents' guide
- 'Me and my dad' – a story to help parents explain their epilepsy
- Learning and behaviour
Complementary treatments
Depression
Diagnosis
- Getting a diagnosis
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Disability Discrimination Act
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Driving
- Driving
- UK driving regulations
- Applying for a driving licence for the first time
- Why you should stop driving when you have had a seizure
- Driving for a living
Drugwatch
Education
- Education – parent’s guide
- Teacher’s guide
- Higher education
- Epilepsy awareness project for primary schools
- Exams
Employment
Facts and figures
First aid
- First aid
- Tonic-clonic seizures
- Seizures involving altered consciousness or behaviour
- Status epilepticus
Inheriting epilepsy
Leaflet Library
Learning disabilities
Memory
Men
- Introduction
- What is epilepsy?
- Living with epilepsy
- Treatment
- Visiting your doctor
- Sex and sexuality
- Becoming a father
- SUDEP
- Support
Mobile phones
Older people
Photosensitive epilepsy
Relationships
Safety
- Safety
- Caring for young children (for parents with epilepsy) : a quick guide
- Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide
Seizures
- Seizures explained
- Describing seizure types
- Partial seizures
- Generalised seizures
- First aid for seizures
- Auras and warnings
- Febrile convulsions
- Keeping a seizure diary
- Non-epileptic attack disorder
- Sleep and seizures
- Triggers
Sport and leisure
Stress
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
Syndromes
- Introduction to syndromes
- Aicardi syndrome
- Angelman syndrome
- Baltic myoclonus
- BECOP (Benign epilepsy of childhood with occipital paroxysms)
- Benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
- Benign partial epilepsy in infancy
- Benign rolandic epilepsy
- Childhood absence epilepsy
- Early myoclonic encephalopathy
- Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
- ESESS (Electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep)
- GEFS+ (Generalised epilepsy with febrile seizures plus)
- Gelastic epilepsy
- Infantile spasms
- Janz syndrome
- Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
- Landau Kleffner syndrome
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Migrating partial epilepsy
- Myoclonic astatic epilepsy
- Otahara syndrome
- Panayiotopoulous syndrome
- Pyridoxine responsive epilepsy
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Rasmussen syndrome
- Rett syndrome
- Ring 20 syndrome
- SMEI (Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy)
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Unverricht-Lundborg syndrome
- West’s syndrome
Teenagers and young people
Travel
Treatment
- Anti-epileptic drug treatment
- Visiting your doctor
- Keeping a diary
- UK anti-epileptic drug list
- Why do my drugs look different?
- The Ketogenic diet
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Surgery
What is epilepsy?
Women
Epilepsy Helpline
- UK freephone 0808 800 5050
- International +44 113 210 8850
- Email: helpline@epilepsy.org.uk
- Txt msg: 07797 805 390 info
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