Where to treat epilepsy

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I have suffered brain injury before, but I have been cured. But in the past six months, I found that my head is always very painful, and sometimes I suddenly lose consciousness. I went to the hospital for a reexamination. The doctor suspected that it was epilepsy. Let's learn how to treat epilepsy.

Where to treat epilepsy

First: epilepsy includes antiepileptic drug treatment and mental disorder treatment. First of all, antiepileptic drugs should be adjusted to control epileptic seizures. Mental and behavioral abnormalities can also be reduced or alleviated accordingly. For those with obvious mental and behavioral abnormalities, corresponding drug treatment can be used at the same time.

Second: at present, the most commonly used drugs include carbamazepine and sodium valproate in traditional antiepileptic drugs, and new antiepileptic drugs such as lamotrigine, topiramate, and oxcarbamate. These antiepileptic drugs have better safety and less side effects than phenytoin sodium, phenobarbital and other old drugs, and are ideal choices for patients with epilepsy.

Third: generally can use drug treatment, commonly used are: phenytoin sodium, carbamazepine, clonazepam, also can choose traditional Chinese medicine tianshhedan treatment. If the effect of drug treatment is not good, surgery may still be needed.

matters needing attention

Different types of epilepsy treatment and prognosis is different, no drug can treat all types of epilepsy, got epilepsy, must first go to the regular hospital to see a doctor, the doctor needs to ask for a detailed history and do the necessary examination.