 Hi, this is Dr. Pramod Krishnan. I'm a consultant neurologist at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. I specialize in epilepsy. Recurrent seizures which are unprovoked, which we call epilepsy, always require treatment. But sometimes a single seizure may not be treated if all the test results are normal. The MRI and the EEG, if they are normal, we would rather avoid medications. But we also need to factor in the patient's lifestyle, his occupation. And if we feel a second seizure could pose a major hazard to the patient, we might initiate medicines right after the first seizure itself. In children, we do come across common seizures which occur with fever. They are called simple febrile seizures. These seizures are generally not treated.