Parenting During the Pandemic
We are all going through an uncertain and quite challenging period that we have never experienced before. We were forced to stay at home due to the pandemic and encountered a lifestyle we were not used to at all. Young people and children were the most affected by this situation. This...
Seizures in Quarantine
Unfortunately, our only agenda in recent months has been the Coronavirus. Within the scope of measures taken due to the rapid spread of the virus and its potentially fatal effects, quarantine days continue for those over 65 years old and children under 20 years old. In order to maintain the educational lives of our children, both public and private...
Epilepsy-Like Conditions
Conditions that Resemble Epilepsy (Seizures) in Children but Are Not Seizures: Childhood is shaped by rapid brain development from the day we are born. During this rapid development process, many disease conditions related to the brain can be encountered. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases in childhood. Both the nature of seizures...
Vaccine Refusal and Its Consequences
What are the consequences of not administering necessary vaccines to children? In the past century, the most important development in the field of medicine regarding public health is accepted to be the introduction of vaccines. The common purpose of many different types of vaccines is to protect individuals against serious complications such as disability and death that can develop due to infections, prevent epidemics and ultimately...
Extreme Heat and Epilepsy
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases. In Turkey, there are approximately 800,000 cases diagnosed with epilepsy, and half of these individuals consist of pediatric patients. Loss of consciousness caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain, involuntary movements that can be seen anywhere in our body, things that do not actually exist...
Harms of Distance Education
What are the Harms of Distance Education to Children? As you know, our schools could not open due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been ongoing for months and seems likely to continue. Although the date of September 21 was set, the current number of cases and the increase in these numbers indicate that this situation will probably not be possible. For some time, private schools...
