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This makes my heart so happy!! These kiddos and their families (plus some donations from those who couldn’t join us today) helped us fill 21 totes to give to Boston Childrens Hospital epilepsy team to give to children that need a little cheering up!

Epilepsy Awareness Month, Fact #4: Approximately 45,000 children are diagnosed with epilepsy each year. That's more than childhood cancer and juvenile diabetes, combined.

The chances of stopping seizures with medications goes down dramatically with each medication added: Approximately 47% of children will be seizure free after trying one anti-epileptic drug; 13% after trying the second drug; and only 4% after trying a third drug, whether alone or in combination with the two other drugs. The remaining 36% of children are drug-resistant.

This means that in the United States alone, of the approximately 45,000 children in the United States who are diagnosed with epilepsy each year, roughly 16,200 are drug-resistant.

So when is epilepsy considered drug-resistant? After failure of TWO appropriate and tolerated anti-epileptic drugs.

How many anti-epileptic drugs has your child failed? Share your story.

Learn about drug resistance at http://bit.ly/2qsoKIh