Playing games can have a significant impact on children with epilepsy. There are few teenage children who get into epilepsy because they love playing games. In April, an 8-year-old boy named Xiaopeng (pseudonym) from Chengyang District, Qingdao, played games on the computer for two days at the weekend because his parents were not home, and slept for only two hours in between, resulting in dizziness in his brain and a feeling that something was spinning. After being taken to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed that Peng’s epilepsy was triggered by excessive computer use. Not only children, but also adults should beware of excessive use of computers. Xiao Zhang, a 31-year-old male engineer at a software company in Zhongguancun, Haidian, Beijing. Last May, he and several colleagues worked day and night for two months on an urgent project, and when the project was nearing its end and everyone was waiting for a toast to celebrate, Zhang suddenly felt dizzy and vomited more than once, accompanied by general convulsions. After being sent to Beijing Haihua Epilepsy Hospital, he was diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy. It is not uncommon for epilepsy to be triggered by excessive internet surfing, addiction to games, or gazing at the TV fluorescent screen in recent years. This is especially true in dimly lit rooms, when the TV and computer images are unstable, when the light is too strong, when the screen is changing too fast, or when the distance is too close, the possibility of epilepsy is greatest. There are many people who suddenly fall to the ground, lose consciousness, have twitching limbs, cry and foam, or even have incontinence while watching TV and computer, or playing video games. Patients often don’t know why they have these symptoms suddenly, and some parents are too busy to know what to do when they see their child having a seizure. Patients are also often reluctant to accept the fact that they have epilepsy, but it is true that they are suffering from a type of epilepsy – photosensitive epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy can occur at any age and there are no significant differences in gender, but it is more common in preschool-aged children. The number of cases accounts for about 5% to 10% of all epilepsy cases, and there has been a gradual increase in recent years. The first thing is that the patient must have epileptic qualities or tendencies, i.e., there may be a family history of epilepsy. The second is the presence of specific environmental stimuli, such as the flickering and changing of the screen in dim conditions mentioned above. In addition, similar situations may occur with rapid passage through sunlit shady ground or the back side of a fence in hot sunlight, fluorescent light activation, artificial flashing stimuli of different frequencies, and in some patients, cell phone use can also trigger epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy, which is more likely to be triggered by jumps in light, flash stimulation, and overuse of the brain, is a susceptible group of children who are addicted to playing games in photosensitive epilepsy. Therefore, parents should be reasonably detached. Playing games, for children, is not just a simple matter of delaying their studies, but is likely to be a lifelong regret.