Treatment of primary epilepsy

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When my son was doing his homework last night, he suddenly fell to the ground and then convulsed. The whole person was very stiff, making a whine sound and salivating. He rushed to the hospital and said it was epilepsy. At present, he is actively cooperating with the doctor in the treatment. What about the method of treating primary epilepsy? Do you understand? Let's talk about the treatment of primary epilepsy.

Treatment of primary epilepsy

Treatment 1: symptomatic treatment: This is the most important treatment of epilepsy concerns. There are several seizure types of epilepsy, different types have targeted drugs. If the medicine is not right, it will not only cure the disease, but also increase the adverse drug reactions. Therefore, epilepsy treatment should first be based on the type and characteristics of patients with seizures to reasonable drug selection.

Treatment 2: antiepileptic treatment: what are the main treatment methods of epilepsy? It's a long process. Patients must cooperate with doctors and persevere. Generally, after the attack is completely controlled for 2-5 years, the time of reduction and withdrawal should be comprehensively considered according to the type of attack and whether the EEG is normal or not. Avoid sudden drug withdrawal, otherwise it will lead to seizures, and even lead to status epilepticus. Therefore, we must gradually stop and reduce the drug under the guidance of doctors.

Treatment 3: individualized treatment: many patients with epilepsy in the initial stage of treatment after taking medicine for a period of time, once the curative effect is not ideal, they mistakenly think that the drugs used are invalid, so frequent replacement of drugs, is also one of the important reasons for intractable epilepsy, which is the focus of treatment of epilepsy.

matters needing attention

Frequent seizures in children will seriously damage the normal life and health of the elderly. So we should control the symptoms of epilepsy in time. In case of sudden seizures in children, we must pay attention to emergency care. The family members of patients should pay attention to protect the tongue of the elderly, to avoid the patient's teeth closed and bite the tongue, so we should grab before the onset of epilepsy, pad the pressure plate for children with epilepsy.