Treatments for epilepsy

As the times of life continue to accelerate, many people suffer from chronic diseases. For example, there are many functional brain disorders that will also cause many chronic diseases. What everyone calls epilepsy is a common disease caused by abnormal reactions of the brain. It is clinically called epilepsy. Now epilepsy is a relatively common disease in neurology. Many people are more concerned about how epilepsy should be treated and what the treatment methods are.

Epilepsy is caused by many reasons. Many types of epilepsy caused by various reasons should also be treated symptomatically. Many epilepsy is caused by genetic factors and brain diseases, while more are systemic diseases. Therefore, understanding the causes of epilepsy can better treat it.

Drug treatment: Drug treatment of epilepsy is a long-term practical process. Doctors, patients and their families must have sufficient patience and love. Patients should have regular follow-up visits. Doctors should provide individualized treatment based on the specific circumstances of each patient, supplemented by scientific life guidance. Only with full cooperation from both parties can satisfactory results be achieved.

It should be noted that some patients and their families have some misunderstandings about epilepsy treatment, such as seeking medical treatment at random, believing in rumors, fearing that Western anti-epileptic drugs "will irritate the brain" and that long-term use will make them "stupid", and they dare not take effective anti-epileptic drugs. However, people blindly seek medical treatment, look for "secret recipes handed down from ancestors" or "pure Chinese medicine" everywhere, and believe in all kinds of advertisements that claim "cure" or "radical cure". This not only wastes a lot of time and money, but also makes epilepsy still not under effective control. It also delays the best and most effective time for treatment, and artificially turns patients into those with refractory epilepsy.

Surgical treatment: After regular anti-epileptic drug treatment, about 20% to 30% of patients still suffer from drug-refractory epilepsy. Surgical treatment of epilepsy provides a new treatment option for this group of patients. It is estimated that about 50% of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy can have their seizures controlled or cured through surgery, which improves the prognosis of refractory epilepsy to a certain extent.

Epilepsy is a common neurological disease that occurs in all age groups and is mainly manifested by symptoms such as spasms and pain. The treatment of epilepsy mainly relies on drug therapy and surgery in clinical practice. Since epilepsy is a chronic disease, drug treatment is also a long-term treatment method. Surgical treatment is mainly performed for epilepsy that is difficult to treat with drugs.