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Focal Epilepsy - Childhood

Thu, 06/01/2017 - 14:47
My daughter was just diagnosed with focal epilepsy. She had two seizures in two months. She's only 2 years old. How common is it for such young children to be diagnosed with epilepsy?

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Submitted by tullio on Thu, 2018-05-03 - 00:42
you may consider the relationship between food and epilepsy:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25394911 : Epileptic seizures as a manifestation of cow's milkhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10479881 : Partial cryptogenetic epilepsy and food allergy/intolerancehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27629850 Celiac Disease and Epilepsyhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17122729 gluten and epilepsyhttp://n.neurology.org/content/68/7/533 Occult celiac disease presenting as epilepsy and MRI changes that responded to gluten-free diethttps://www.epilepsy.com/connect/forums/complementary-therapies/magnesium-deficiency https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19049584Please report your experience

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