What to eat is good for epilepsy

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Reasonable diet has great benefits for people's health, especially for epilepsy, which often affects our lives. Diet can be good to prevent the recurrence of epilepsy, let our body more healthy. So, what food does epileptic patient eat have benefit to illness?

What to eat is good for epilepsy

Usually eat more acidic food. Acid food provides rich vitamin C, vitamin B6, etc. to the human body, which is conducive to the synthesis of neurotransmitters, so as to make up for the lack of some neurotransmitters in patients with epilepsy, especially in patients with primary epilepsy. The acid foods in traditional food are: peanuts, walnuts, pork, beef, chicken, duck, goose, fish, shrimp, eggs and so on.

Patients with epilepsy should supplement calcium in time. Epilepsy in patients with seizures, so that increased nerve excitability, prone to alkalosis or hypocalcemia. So eat more high calcium food, because calcium can calm the central nervous system, inhibit nerve cell excitability.

The diet is diversified. In principle, the diet of patients with epilepsy is no different from that of ordinary people. We should try our best to diversify the food, eat more nutritious and easy to digest food, such as pasta, lean meat, eggs, fish, etc. in particular, we should eat more beans, fresh vegetables, fruits and dairy products, which are rich in protein and phospholipids, help to restore brain function and reduce the number of attacks, and eat less sorghum fat For thick food, goose and mutton should be eaten less; for some highly irritating food, such as pepper, onion and garlic, it is better to eat less, otherwise it is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.

matters needing attention

Epilepsy patients should not eat high zinc food. It is found that the average level of blood zinc in almost all patients with epilepsy is higher than that in normal people. After long-term antiepileptic drug treatment, the blood zinc concentration of the patients was significantly lower than that before treatment, and some patients even had some symptoms of zinc deficiency. Experts believe that antiepileptic drugs or other metabolites can effectively react with zinc ions, reduce the blood zinc concentration of patients with epilepsy, so as to control seizures. Therefore, in addition to paying attention to drug treatment, epilepsy patients should try to eat less or no zinc rich food in their daily life.