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Is epilepsy hereditary.?

2017-04-07 16:24:25
I am thinking of getting married. I got a good proposal. But the guy has partial seizers. he takes encorate crono daily. Get seizers when someone wakes him one from sleep. Feel problems with flickering lights. It lasts for 10-15 secs. but he is can sense and feel during seizers. IS this type of epilepsy hereditary?
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It is not inherited.

Answered2017-04-08 09:15:01

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