What is senile epilepsy?

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Adult onset epilepsy is called late onset epilepsy. Clinically, 20 years old is the starting point of age, and the patients over 60 years old with epilepsy are called senile late-onset epilepsy or senile epilepsy. The etiology, diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in the elderly are different from those in other age groups. What is senile epilepsy? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is senile epilepsy?

Simple partial seizures (without disturbance of consciousness) had motor symptoms; ② Have body feeling or special feeling symptom; ③ There were autonomic nerve symptoms; ④ I have mental symptoms. Complex partial seizures (accompanied with disturbance of consciousness) 1. Simple partial seizures followed by disturbance of consciousness; ② At the beginning, there are consciousness disorders: only consciousness disorders and automatism.

Because epilepsy in the elderly is mostly secondary, most of the clinical seizures of epilepsy in the elderly are partial seizures, in which simple partial seizures are the main manifestation, and a few of them are complex partial seizures. The occurrence of epilepsy in the elderly is not necessarily parallel to the size of the lesion and the severity of the disease,

The frontal, parietal and temporal lobes had the highest incidence. After seizures in the elderly, the state of Mongolia can last for a long time, some patients can last more than 24 hours, some patients can even as long as a week. Post seizure paralysis is also more common, especially in patients with epilepsy after stroke, which may be confused with re stroke.

matters needing attention

The sensitivity of antiepileptic drugs in the elderly increases, glomerular filtration decreases, and the retention time of drugs in the body is longer, so the use of lower than average dose will also receive good curative effect. At the same time, we need to choose drugs that do not pass renal filtration as much as possible.