Social medical aspects of epilepsy in school age

Epilepsy patients of school age face special challenges. Epilepsy itself and adverse drug events of anticonvulsants, such as fatigue and behavioral changes can have anegative impact on school success and social participation. Schoolchildren with epilepsy can often describe their seizures well and describe the loss of control as adecisive criterion. Emergency situations and also school situations are often depicted in pictures. In order to improve the situation for children with epilepsy, teachers should be able to react adequately to aseizure. Training makes an important contribution to improving patient safety by improving the knowledge of caregivers and increasing the willingness of teachers to administer aprescribed rescue medication. In addition, knowledge of the precautions needed to prevent accidents in the event of aseizure will increase. At the same time, participation can be improved by no longer excluding children unnecessarily from activities. Specific support or measures, such as compensation for disadvantages, can further improve the situation. Medical measures, such as the optimization of epilepsy treatment in order to achieve optimum efficacy with individually justifiable adverse drug events are the basis of all these strategies.