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@IBESocialMedia@IlaeWeb@IntEpilepsyDay#EpilepsyDay 2022 #EpilepsyAwareness My message on " #Valentine Day and #Epilepsy to mark the 8th @IntEpilepsyDay 2022 Feburary 14th- M.A.Aleem Neurologist #Trichy #Tamilnadu #India

Valentine Day and Epilepsy

- M.A.Aleem Neurologist and Epileptologist  #Trichy #Tamilnadu #India 

This year International Epilepsy Day fall on
Valentine Day the celebration in honor of the patron saint of lovers, St. Valentine, takes on greater meaning when you consider He is also the patron saint of epilepsy—a common neurological condition that causes seizures and affects nearly 12 million in India.

How St. Valentine became the patron saint of epilepsy is uncertain. One theorist points out that Valentine sounds much like the German word for “fallen”. Epilepsy was once known as the “falling sickness”. Other legends propose that a 3rd century bishop named Valentine von Terni freed the son of a Roman orator
 from an epileptic seizure

Regardless, it would be assumed that people with epilepsy and their families turned to St. Valentine not only for love, but for comfort and hope to enable them to cope with their condition


While St. Valentine is widely known as the patron saint of lovers and is celebrated around the world on February 14, very few people, including doctors, know he also was helpful and beneficent to people with epilepsy in ancient times.

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