Can epilepsy be inherited in women

summary

Epilepsy is a disease prone to recurrent seizures, such a disease is not very good to be cured after the occurrence of recurrent seizures, so that patients suffer too much torture, many people do not know much about epilepsy, some people want to know whether epilepsy will occur in the end genetic? So let's take a look at the specific introduction!

Can epilepsy be inherited in women

1. About female epilepsy can heredity, can say so, different epilepsy type can have different heredity way. For example, some people do not have epilepsy after trauma, and some people have epilepsy after trauma. On the one hand, it is determined by the lesion itself, on the other hand, it is determined by genetic quality or genetic factors. These are not absolute. But epilepsy has genetic tendency of this part of patients, in the treatment is not difficult, it is not as terrible as people think.

2. The risk of various malformations in infants born to women taking antiepileptic drugs is 2-3 times higher than that of normal people. It is generally believed that phenytoin sodium, lumina and valproic acid have higher teratogenicity, and other drugs such as carbamazepine also have certain teratogenicity. In addition, the more kinds and doses of drugs taken, the higher the risk.

3. Before pregnancy, epileptic women taking medicine should make plans under the guidance of epileptic specialists. In the first half of pregnancy, epilepsy should be controlled to a minimum, and drugs should be reduced from multiple doses to a single dose as far as possible, so as to maintain the minimum dose that can control epilepsy. The whole pregnancy should be followed up regularly, the blood concentration of drugs should be measured regularly, and the prenatal examination should be carried out regularly, including B-ultrasound examination. As long as the above preparations are well done, 90% of epileptic women are able to get pregnant and give birth normally, and their babies are also healthy.

matters needing attention

In addition to the prevention of epilepsy in later life, we should also actively take treatment measures to avoid missing the best time of treatment Machine.