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[|Human|] hi.., my friends 9yr old son has a seizure last night out of the blue...and was really bad, he has never had one before. never has had any medical problems and has always been a normal healty child... the doctors told us today he is epileptec(sp) and will now have seizures and be on med for the rest of his life... how can that happen??
[|AI|]  Hello, Epilepsy can have many origins. It may be due to stroke or vessel malformations, infection or inflammation in the brain, trauma, tumors, metabolic, brain damage during childbirth etc. So blood and imaging tests are indicated if not already done. However, there is a percentage of cases where even after all tests are done the cause is not found, they remain without a known cause. So it may happen I am afraid. However, before accepting that you should discuss with the doctors how did they reach that conclusion. One single seizure doesn't make the diagnosis of epilepsy, only when there are repeat seizures. So its unclear how did they decide that, did they see other more subtle seizures, did they see abnormal activity on EEG or epileptogenic focus on MRI? If none of that then I wouldn't be so sure about that conclusion and would seek evaluation from another neurologist. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.