Myth 1: Suddenly dazed eyes are just lost in thought When it comes to seizures, people always think of confusion, general convulsions, foaming at the mouth, urinary and fecal incontinence, the so-called grand mal seizures. In fact, epilepsy can also have many other types of seizures. In elementary school, Ming often suddenly froze, stopped moving, had blank eyes, and did not respond to the outside world, as if he was daydreaming, and then returned to his normal state a few seconds later, sometimes with dozens of seizures a day, and his academic performance plummeted. He was considered to be constantly distracted in class, and punishments and reprimands from teachers and scolding from parents became a regular part of Liang’s life. Later, Liangliang was diagnosed by a doctor as having “pediatric epilepsy: anhedonia-like seizures”. After regular treatment, Liang Liang’s symptoms were well controlled in a few days, and his academic performance and life gradually returned to normal. There are also some patients with seizures with varying degrees of impaired consciousness or sensory impairment, and even psychiatric abnormalities. Therefore, once a child is found to have intermittent, episodic abnormal behavior, regardless of the symptoms, you should be alert and go to a regular hospital specialist in a timely manner. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get to the root of the problem. The majority of patients with epilepsy can be completely controlled with reasonable medication. The most common misconceptions are that the parents of children with epilepsy have misconceptions that reduce the effectiveness of the treatment and even make it fail. Common misconceptions include: some people believe that western medicine has obvious side effects and that long-term medication will make them stupid. In fact, the vast majority of these side effects are due to brain damage caused by poorly controlled epilepsy, and regular antiepileptic drugs do not cause dumbness. Other parents believe that all medications are ineffective and frequently change medications. It is important to know that most anti-epileptic drugs are slow to take effect, and it is difficult to judge the true efficacy of changing medications for three days. The majority of the so-called anti-epileptic prescriptions or pure Chinese medicine preparations are actually mixed with one or several western drugs. In the community, including parents of children with epilepsy, many people have an incorrect attitude towards the daily care and education of children with epilepsy. Some parents are afraid of danger and excessively restrict their children’s daily activities, such as not watching TV, not playing soccer, not swimming, so that the child loses the fun of childhood. Parents and teachers have the same (or even more important) responsibilities and obligations as doctors in the treatment and growth of children with epilepsy. Only by improving the scientific understanding of epilepsy and epileptic patients in society can these tragedies not be repeated, so that the majority of children with epilepsy can have the same fun and personality as normal children of the same age and have a bright future.