These seizures may overshadow other medical problems because they lead to restrictions on the child's activities.
Seizures usually develop after the first obvious motor abnormalities.
A teacher or parent observing a seizure often believes that the child is dying. Controlling seizures means chronic administration of anticonvulsant drugs. It is natural to want to control seizures, but there is a danger of prescribing or administering excessive doses. This is not drug failure, but failure of drug administration. It is quite difficult to take medication every day at the same time of day.