“Epilepsy is a deceitful and devious disease”

Since Saturday December 14, the local Indre-et-Loire correspondence of the Epilepsy France association has officially become a delegation. Led by three committed women – all mothers of epileptic children – the organization intends to break the taboos around epilepsy, a neurological disease that is still too little known.

More than 700,000. This is the number of French people affected by epilepsy today, that is. It is the second most common chronic neurological disease behind migraine. Émilie Salveniac, president of the Indre-et-Loire delegation, is the mother of a teenage girl with idiopathic epilepsy. That is to say without identifiable cause. For her, “ epilepsy is a deceitful and sneaky disease, it arrived one morning without warning “. For her 12-year-old daughter, every crisis is […]

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Audrey Lecomte