A child is brought to the emergency department after experiencing a seizure at school.There is no previous history of seizures.The father tells the nurse that he cannot believe the child has epilepsy.What is the basis of the nurses' response?
A) Epilepsy is an easily treatable disease.
B) Very few children have actual epilepsy.
C) The seizure may or may not be an indication of epilepsy.
D) Reassure the father that his child probably does not have epilepsy.

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Seizures are the indispensable characteristic of epilepsy;however,not every seizure is epileptic.Epilepsy is a chronic seizure disorder with recurrent and unprovoked seizures.The treatment of epilepsy involves a thorough assessment to determine the type of seizure the child is having and the cause of events,followed by individualized therapy to allow the child to have as normal a life as possible.The nurse should not base the response on generalizations that very few children have actual epilepsy or provide reassurance that it is not epilepsy until further assessment is made.

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