Who can get epilepsy?

Answer 1

About 1 in every 200 people have Epilepsy. Nearly everyone will experience some sort of incident in their lives that could be regarded as an epilepsy-related. Epilepsy is a broad ranging illness that comes in many forms. It may happen once and never again to someone, or a few times for a short period and then clear up. The nature and form of it may be barely noticeable, or could be some unexplained fainting or something very significant.

Answer 2

Anyone can get it, when I was diagnosed with epilepsy I was 17 in my Jr. year of high school, after I had a seizure at football practice, Before that I was the spitting image of health, ate healthy, worked out regularly, never did drugs or alcohol. But the conditions were, unfortunately, just right for me to have a seizure and subsequently I was diagnosed. My family had no history of epilepsy on either side.

Answer 3

Febrile seizures (or convulsions) occur mainly in children between three months and five years of age and are associated with a fever of any cause. Toddlers are most commonly affected and there is a tendency for febrile seizures to run in families.

Answer 4

Anyone can get epilepsy. Most individuals will at some point in their life experience some kind of seizure, and then never have one again. People with epilepsy are people who get recurring seizures. The causes of seizures are numerous, so there are many reasons why people get them. If you had a serious head injury after an accident, you could start to get seizures for example. These may stop after your head injury improves, but you could continue to have them for the rest of your life, in which case you would be diagnosed as having epilepsy. People with brain damage are prone to seizures. People developing a brain problem, such as a tumour, may start to get seizures as one symptom of their condition. As you can see seizures are often caused by some physical damage, so epilepsy is a physical condition, not a mental one.

Answer 5

The incidence is highest among young children and the elderly. High-risk groups include persons with a previous history of brain injury or lesions.

Answer 6

It generally comes as a neurological problem from birth. Yet, 90% of the people who have had a traumatic brain injury will suffer from epilepsy after the injury.

Answer 7

Every race is as vulnerable as the other.

Answer 8

Anyone.