Treatment of epilepsy

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Children will often suddenly lose consciousness, fall to the ground, limbs twitch, mouth salivation, hospital examination said epilepsy, hospitalization treatment is very fast, I recover almost, I'll talk about the treatment of epilepsy.

Treatment of epilepsy

Treatment 1: symptomatic treatment: This is the most important treatment of epilepsy concerns. There are several seizure types of epilepsy, different types have targeted drugs. If the medicine is not right, it will not only cure the disease, but also increase the adverse drug reactions. Therefore, epilepsy treatment should first be based on the type and characteristics of patients with seizures to reasonable drug selection.

Treatment 2: antiepileptic treatment: what are the main treatment methods of epilepsy? It's a long process. Patients must cooperate with doctors and persevere. Generally, after the attack is completely controlled for 2-5 years, the time of reduction and withdrawal should be comprehensively considered according to the type of attack and whether the EEG is normal or not. Avoid sudden drug withdrawal, otherwise it will lead to seizures, and even lead to status epilepticus. Therefore, we must gradually stop and reduce the drug under the guidance of doctors.

Treatment 3: individualized treatment: many patients with epilepsy in the initial stage of treatment after taking medicine for a period of time, once the curative effect is not ideal, they mistakenly think that the drugs used are invalid, so frequent replacement of drugs, is also one of the important reasons for intractable epilepsy, which is the focus of treatment of epilepsy.

matters needing attention

One of the major causes of epilepsy is genetic, our country has been advocating eugenics, only to do this, can reduce the incidence of epilepsy, so the preventive measures of epilepsy include, avoid with epilepsy and epilepsy family history of people married childbearing, so can reduce genetic epilepsy. Secondly, close relative marriage should be prohibited, because the probability of genetic disease caused by close relative marriage is very high!