dr gumede says the signs and symptoms of epilepsy vary, and can present in various ways, including generalised absence seizures (petit mal), when a person looks blank and stares; generalised tonicclonic seizures (grand mal), which commonly start with body stiffening, before the person falls down and has jerking movements; and complex partial seizures, which affect a part of the brain.

uhu u dzidzivhala lwa tshi fhinganyana lune na miraḓo ya oma (petit mal), ndi hune ha tou dzhia fhedzi mithethe i si gathi nahone muthu onoyo a nga ḓi fhedza a songo zwi ḓivha uri o vha o dzidzivhala.
