Managing epilepsy: A young Cork teen is fighting back

The news that your child has epilepsy does not mean major life changes or cutting out sports. All you need is to take some sensible precautions, writes Catherine Shanahan.

ABSORBING the news that your child has epilepsy is distressing for any parent but for many life can continue as normal.

In fact Dr Amre Shahwan, a consultant paediatric neurologist at Temple St Children’s Hospital, Dublin, is of the opinion that “the sky’s the limit” for the one in every 200 children in Ireland with epilepsy as long as a few of sensible precautions are put in place.