Purple Day – international epilepsy day – returns on Thursday 26 March 2020. Did you know that 87 people are diagnosed with epilepsy every day. Epilepsy can affect anyone, anytime, any place and can change lives in a moment. In Purple day 2020 during the Pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 infection, this is appropriate to present about Epilepsy / Seizure and Coronavirus 1. Are people with epilepsy at higher risk of developing COVID-19 (coronavirus)? Epilepsy is a “family” of many different disorders that lead to seizures.
Some people will have easily controlled seizures, have no other health problems, and become seizure-free on medications. Or they may have epilepsy with occasional seizures but no other health problems. For these people, the available data suggests that just having epilepsy alone a. Does not increase the risk of getting COVID-19 b. Does not increase the severity of…
