Neutun Labs Develops Wearable App to Track Epilepsy

 

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.9 million adults and children in the United States suffer from active epilepsy.

Taking your medications, getting plenty of rest, and keeping your stress low are all ways to help manage epilepsy. But until now, there hasn’t been a centralized way of tracking all of these factors.

Now, Eric and Alex Dolan have created an app that will revolutionize the way these individuals track and manage their seizures. Neutun provides safe and stigma free seizure tracking from your smartphone and smartwatch.

It all started as a way to help track their own mother’s seizures and other relevant episodes.

People who suffer from epilepsy—especially those who live alone—often wake up without any recollection of how many seizures they had. With this new app, called Neutun, patients—as well as loved ones and doctors—can track their seizures, and hopefully develop a better understanding of their condition.

The wearable application tracks seizures as journal entries (including the duration), alerts people when a loved one is having a seizure, reminds individuals to take medications, and advises whether or not the patient has been getting enough sleep and exercise.