November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month

You may hashtags like #NEAM on Facebook and Twitter this month – that’s because November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month!  Team Kye celebrated this opportunity to create awareness with our Team Kye Purple Day on Friday November 21.  If you live in the Philadelphia area, you may have also see the Philadelphia Skyline and landmarks lit up in purple.

Team Kye was started with the mission to create awareness of what it means to live with epilepsy and a vision to enable Kye to live in a community where she was loved and embraced.  For that reason, we get excited about Epilepsy Awareness Month.

 

 Source: Epilepsy Foundation Eastern Pennsylvania

• 65 MILLION: Number of people around the world who have epilepsy.
• Nearly 3 MILLION: Number of people in the United States who have epilepsy.
• 1 IN 26: Number of people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime.
• 150,000: Number of new cases of epilepsy in the United States
• ONE-THIRD: Number of people with epilepsy who live with uncontrollable seizures because no available treatment works for them.
• 6 OUT OF 10: Number of people with epilepsy where the cause is unknown.
• 50,000: Number of people who die from epilepsy-related causes in the United States every year.
• 15.5 BILLION: Estimated annual cost of medical costs and lost or reduced earnings and production.
• 1 IN 10: Number of Americans who will have a seizure at some point in their life.
• 5 %: The risk that children of parents with epilepsy will develop epilepsy themselves, unless the parent has a clearly hereditary form of the disorder.
• 300,000: Number of children affected by epilepsy under the age of 15.
• 4TH MOST COMMON: Neurological disorder after migraine, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.