Extend your learning
- Read the booklet for women of childbearing age who are being prescribed valproate produced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Find out about the risks of having a seizure during pregnancy
- Seizures differ hugely from person to person, from a simple partial seizure where the person feels strange but remains fully conscious to the tonic-clonic generalised seizure many consider to be characteristic of epilepsy. Read more details on these here
- Would you know what to do if someone had a seizure in the pharmacy? Read the information here.