Seizure Facts

• 2.5 million Americans have epilepsy/seizure disorder.
• There are approximately 80,000 people with epilepsy in Kansas and western Missouri, and approximately 9,000 are children.
• Epilepsy/seizure disorder can occur at any age, any time.
• Senior citizens are the fastest growing segment of the population diagnosed with seizures.
• Epilepsy is not contagious; it is not a disease.
• People having seizures cannot swallow their tongues.
• Never restrain or place anything in the mouth of a person having a seizure.
• Epilepsy is an episodic disability. Between seizures, people are healthy and normal.
• Teasing, joking, misunderstanding, and perpetuating the myths by others are more debilitating than the disorder.