What causes epilepsy in life

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Epilepsy is divided into small and large seizures, most of the use of drugs to control, drugs did not control, 2 to 3 years about 70% of the people will be cured. Let's share our experience about what causes epilepsy in our life.

What causes epilepsy in life

Etiology 1: sleep: sleep has an impact on some epilepsy, such as benign epilepsy with central temporal spikes in children, more frequent seizures during sleep; infantile spasms occur more frequently after waking up and before going to bed; idiopathic generalized tonic clonic seizures occur more after waking up.

Cause 2: fever: fever is the cause of seizures, especially febrile seizures. And febrile convulsion can induce epilepsy.

Etiology 3: endocrine: endocrine changes also have an impact on epilepsy, if the seizure often starts in adolescence or menarche, absence seizures can turn into seizures in adolescence.

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As epilepsy is a chronic disease, it is necessary to adhere to long-term treatment. After the symptoms of epilepsy are completely controlled, the drug can be stopped gradually. The process of drug reduction also needs more than one year. Short term or sudden drug withdrawal should be avoided. The longer the course of disease is, the larger the dose is, the slower the drug withdrawal will be. A few patients with epilepsy may need lifelong medication.