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Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood: A Guide (Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

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This book provided straightforward, invaluable information to our family when faced with our child's seizure disorder. It explains all the medical terms that our neurologist seemed to throw around without explanation (thereby scaring us!). It is optimistic and practical. It spans everything from how to deal with seizures, the pros and cons of different treatment, and how your child can live a full life. Most of all it put us at ease and educated us as to how to proceed with our child's medical treatment. It also helped guide us with what to tell others - the school, babysitters, grandparents. Definitely a must read for parents dealing with a child with seizures!

I agree with the other reviewers that this book is parent-friendly, clear, and hopeful. My baby had seizures for two weeks after he was born and it took a while for me to understand what had happened and what to do next. I read two other books before finding "Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood," and this one was certainly the best. It is thorough and does a great job of explaining that there are many different kinds of seizure disorders and therefore different types of treatment. It dispels many of the myths out there about seizure disorders and says that many children grow out of it. Neurology has grown leaps and bounds in this field in the past 10-15, and it's important to be up-to-date, since many doctors have differing opinions about how to treat seizures. If you're at all confused (like I was), this book is for you.

This book is full of straight-forward information about epilepsy and its effects on the brain. It addresses initial medical evaluations and diagnoses, and discusses various treatments--traditional and complementary therapies--in depth. The authors handle these potentially complicated topics with simplicity of language and great compassion.

In fact, the best part of this book is the authors' ability to recognize and allay parental fears by dispelling myths surrounding the illness. A substantial section of the book offers suggestions to help a family (not just the patient) cope with epilepsy--at home, school, in extended family settings, and so on.

This is a well-researched and documented book. I highly recommend it for any parent facing a dignosis of epilepsy for the first time.

I did read a lot of books about epilepsy, but this one is the best!
You get all the informations you need to have a good picture about this illness. It is very well written, very easy to understand and covers all the basics and also the more deeper informations about for example side effects etc..
I can recommend this book as a standard book you should have.

I personally benefited tremendously from this very positive book. My little boy has seizure disorder and i was desperate for any knowledgeable information that could guide me and help me through this terrible horrifying experience for any parent.
This is definitely a book i would recommend.

I am so grateful that I found this book! My son was recently diagnosed with epilepsy, and I was completely lost and overwhelmed by how nebulous the diagnosis and prognosis is for my son. I didn't even know what to ask the doctors when they finally discovered that he had epilepsy. They sent me home with medication and one sheet of information. With the help of this book, I was able to compile a list of questions to ask the doctor and sort through the information that I received. This book has a good glossary, description of seizures, personal stories, overview of epilepsy and it's types, treatments, tests, and medications. I found the book so helpful that I bought copies for family members, and it really made us all feel a lot better. If you have just recently received a diagnosis of epilepsy in your family, this book is a great place to start.

This book has helped me to understand epilepsy so I am not feeling as anxious or hopeless about my daughter's seizures. I highly recommend it for anyone who has seizures or knows/loves someone that does.

My son was diagnosed with seizures. Other than talking to his neurologist my only other source of information was the internet. I wanted unbiased factual information to educate myself and this book is the answer. I felt more empowered reading this and I would highly recommend it for other parents or even teachers with students that have seizures and epilepsy.

What an excellent resource! My child had his first non-febrile tonic clonic seizure and I didn't know how to cope with the unexpectedness of a recurrent seizure. This book truly informs and reassures in parent-friendly terms.

As a grandmother of a 7 year old who was just diagnosed with epilepsy, this book is invaluable to me.
I've learned the difference between a seizure disorder and epilepsy, the different types of epilepsy, treatment options, and how it affects the family. Mostly, this book just made me feel comfortable that the physicians who treat my grandson are doing the 'right' things and secondly, that we are not alone...my grandson is in good company and the best in the medical community are cognizant and working on treatments and cures.