Calm, private discussion
Fear and worry are heard without judgement.
Your child has seizures, and the grandparents want a healer instead of a neurologist
He was at the dinner table when his eyes rolled, his body stiffened and he fell. It lasted a minute and felt like an hour. The emergency room spoke of epilepsy and tests. Your in-laws, on the phone from India, say doctors will only give drugs, that this is a shadow on the child, and that they know someone. You are caught between the hospital and the family.

Fear and worry are heard without judgement.
We separate genuine concerns from ordinary stress or health.
Guidance on prayer and protection from anywhere.
Only protective and peaceful remedies are advised.
A seven-year-old has a second seizure at school. His mother wants to start the medicine prescribed. His grandmother, who lives with them, hides it and ties an amulet instead, certain that medicines will weaken him. The parents discover this after a third episode.
Seizures look uncanny, and for centuries were explained as possession everywhere in the world. Epilepsy is a condition of the brain's electrical activity. In most children it is well controlled with treatment, and untreated seizures carry real risk. Autism, tics and ADHD are likewise sometimes mistaken for outside influence.
A consultation helps you bring the family along. Prayer for your child is a comfort we respect. We do not treat illness, do not perform exorcisms, and are clear that the neurologist's plan comes first.
In terms the grandparents can follow.
Usually about side effects and stigma. It can be answered.
A role for the elders that does not interfere.
Diagnosis, medicines and what to do in a seizure. The main service page has the session information.
How the consultation worksThis is dangerous. Parents must control the medication.
Never, for a child.
Learn proper first aid from the hospital and teach everyone at home.
Follow the treatment exactly. Ask the neurologist's office for written information, and if possible have the doctor speak to the grandparents directly or through an interpreter. Hearing it from the specialist often changes minds.
Give the elders a part to play: daily prayers for the child, a visit to the temple, an amulet worn safely on the outside. Explain that he needs both their prayers and his medicine, and that only the parents will give the medicine. Teach everyone seizure first aid: lay him on his side, nothing in the mouth, time it, call 911 if it lasts beyond five minutes. Many children outgrow epilepsy or live fully with it. Ask the neurologist for a written seizure plan you can share with the school, the grandparents and anyone else who looks after your child.
The session is online and can be joined from Atlanta by the whole family. We speak to elders respectfully. Birth details are optional.
No. Seizures are a medical condition that doctors treat effectively.
Ask the neurologist about side effects. Untreated seizures are the greater danger.
Yes, alongside treatment. Nothing should be given for him to swallow.
Let the specialist explain, involve them in prayer, and keep medication in the parents' hands.