Benign Epilepsy of Childhood and Gowers's Statements

To the Editor.— Is there a group of children whose seizures have an excellent prognosis without any treatment whatsoever? The recent article by Freeman et al1 clearly favors a positive answer. They suggest that children who are likely to remain seizure free when medication is discontinued after 2 years without seizures2 might be good candidates for withholding any treatment. Our findings3 may support this suggestion. Anticonvulsant medication was stopped in a prospective study in 116 children with epilepsy (defined as two afebrile seizures or more) who had had no seizures for 2 years.