What should I do if I think I'm going to have an absence seizure?

What should I do if I think I'm going to have an absence seizure?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What should I do if I think I'm going to have an absence seizure?; What should I do if I see someone having an absence seizure? and more...

This would be very rare. It's very difficult to actually have a warning for an absence seizure. Auras, the so-called sensory warnings that we talked about in an earlier question, are not associated with this type of a seizure. So, this is a difficult question to answer, because it may not be applicable to this type of epilepsy.