This is advisable
especially if you don't know the person," says Spittles.
Unfortunately, six out of ten people have no clear cause," says Spittles.
That's something you should look for if possible, because it's such an individual condition and
it will affect people in very different ways," says Spittles.
Many people think you should restrain someone or put something in their mouth,
but that's actually really dangerous,” says Chantal Spittles, spokesperson for Epilepsy Action.
It's a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain which causes a temporary disturbance in the way the
brain cells talk to each other," clarifies Spittles.
People often think of tonic-clonic seizures- the common one where people fall to the floor- but you can also have absence seizures where people just look like they're not paying attention or
are zoning out," says Spittles.