EBRUARY 12 to February 18 marked Epilepsy Awareness Week and in commemoration of this, the Epilepsy Foundation’s national director Marina Clarke shed some light on some of the stereotypes associated with epilepsy. According to the foundation, in 66% of the people diagnosed with epilepsy (known as idiopathic epilepsy), the cause cannot be determined. In the remaining cases (known as symptomatic epilepsy), causes include brain injury and bleeding, including birth injuries, brain infections like encephalitis, drug and alcohol abuse, biochemical imbalances, brain tumours and degeneration caused by ageing. People living with the illness are often stigmatised in society and this is often due to upheld stereotypes which are not necessarily true. Some of the stereotypes include ideas that epilepsy is contagious and that people with epilepsy can Imfucumfucu yamafutha omzimba womzimba kusuka ku-AHAVA iyinto entsha evumayo emakethe yemikhiqizo yobuhle. Umkhiqizo unephunga elimnandi lika-cactus ne-pink pepper, futhi ukubunjwa kwalo kuyamangalisa: i-jojoba yamafutha, i-sesame, i-vitamin E ne-Algae ekhishwa uLwandle Olufile. Amafutha aphelelanga ngokuphelele ngokuphefumula, kodwa futhi avimbela ukuguga kusenesikhathi ngaphambi kwesikhumba, ukunikeza ukukhanya kwemvelo, ukukhanya okunempilo.