Neonatal seizures are often controlled with phenobarbital administration. Recurrent seizures later in life are treated in the standard ways (covered in the main epilepsy article). Depending on the severity, some infants are sent home with heart and oxygen monitors that are hooked to the child with stick on electrodes to signal any seizure activity. Once a month the monitor readings are downloaded into a central location for the doctor to be able to read at a future date. This monitor is only kept as a safeguard as usually the medication wards off any seizures. Once the child is weaned off the phenobarbital, the monitor is no longer necessary.
Benign familial neonatal seizures
Benign neonatal seizures
Benign infantile epilepsy
Benign familial infantile epilepsy
Childhood absence epilepsy
Benign neonatal sleep myoclonus
Musicogenic epilepsy
Idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut