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• If you don’t get treatment for seizures, their symptoms can become worse and progressively longer in duration. Extremely long seizures can lead to coma or death. Seizures also can lead to injury, such as falls or trauma to the body. It’s important to wear a medical identification bracelet that tells emergency responders that you have epilepsy.

• While there’s no way to stop a seizure once it’s begun, you can provide help. Here’s what the American Academy of Neurology recommends: As soon as you start noticing the symptoms of a seizure, keep track of time. Most seizures last between one to two minutes. If the person has epilepsy and the seizure lasts longer than three minutes, call 911.

In order to stop a seizure during sleep, you can adopt methods like:

• Avoiding or preventing sleeping on your back
• Not using too warm clothes or blankets during sleeping thus maintaining normal heat exchange.
• Having a high oxygen level when you get to sleep. This can be achieved by not eating just before sleeping. ...
• Adapting to only nasal breathing during sleep. ...

If you don’t get treatment for seizures, their symptoms can become worse and progressively longer in duration. Extremely long seizures can lead to coma or death. Seizures also can lead to injury, such as falls or trauma to the body. It’s important to wear a medical identification bracelet that tells emergency responders that you have epilepsy.

While there’s no way to stop a seizure once it’s begun, you can provide help. Here’s what the American Academy of Neurology recommends: As soon as you start noticing the symptoms of a seizure, keep track of time. Most seizures last between one to two minutes. If the person has epilepsy and the seizure lasts longer than three minutes, call 911.