Can seizures die, does epilepsy die

Many patients are concerned about the cause of death from epilepsy because it can affect the patient's life. In fact, the question of whether epilepsy can die or not is a very complex one. In general, there must be an obvious cause of death in death.

But epilepsy causes death, and the cause of death may not be related to epilepsy. Epilepsy is divided into primary epilepsy and secondary epilepsy. Secondary epilepsy is a seizure caused by brain diseases such as traumatic brain injury and encephalitis.

These brain diseases include cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors, etc., which can kill people in their own right.

Generally speaking, epilepsy is not life-threatening, but once status epilepticus appears, it is life-threatening, and if you engage in some more dangerous work during the seizure, such as high-altitude work, seaside work, etc., once the seizure occurs during the work, the patient himself has no sense of self-help and is prone to danger.

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As long as epilepsy patients restrain their difficulties, actively treat and treat as soon as possible, the damage to their health can be minimized. And the sooner epilepsy is treated, the better it will work. The less the blow to nerves, IQ, etc.

Some patients or family members are lucky and hope that epilepsy will heal without treatment, which is not advisable and very wrong.

According to the current medical development, epilepsy is a treatable and controllable disease, and death due to epilepsy is relatively rare, but it does not mean that epilepsy will not lead to death. Seizures lead to death in the following cases:

1. Physical weakness: epilepsy patients take medication for a long time and the course of the disease is long, resulting in a relatively weak body;

2. Accompanied by other diseases: accompanied by other systemic diseases, especially cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, etc.;

3. Irregular medication: Unauthorized addition or decrease of dose, resulting in seizures that are difficult to control. Irregular medication can lead to status epilepticus, which can be life-threatening due to prolonged seizures or complications if not controlled promptly.

In summary, epilepsy** is a scientific, long-term process that should be taken seriously.

The vast majority of seizures do not lead to death, so do not pinch the person in the middle of the person when you encounter a person who has a seizure, and do not break your hands or pry your teeth. When you have a normal seizure, keep your head tilted to the side and try not to inhale secretions into your airways, and you will recover quickly after a while.

However, in special cases, such as status epilepticus, it can cause a persistent lack of oxygen to the brain, which can lead to death, which is a relatively rare situation. In addition, if repeated seizures of epilepsy can cause brain damage, it may cause other diseases and also lead to death. It is important for people with epilepsy not to climb high, swim, or drive a motor vehicle, because if they are swimming during a seizure, they will drown, and if they are climbing high during a seizure, they may fall off and fall to their death, which is a special case.

Therefore, epilepsy patients must take good protection, take medicine as soon as possible, and if there is a persistent grand mal seizure, they must be injected with intravenous bolus diazepam as soon as possible to stop the continuous seizures of epilepsy to protect the patient's brain cells.

Status epilepticus can cause death, often due to abrupt discontinuation of the drug or other causes.

Because epilepsy does not have much effect on longevity, epilepsy does not affect the length of life in the entire population of epilepsy patients.

However, there are also certain risks of asphyxia during seizures, inhalation pneumonia, fractures, and dislocations.

Therefore, epilepsy needs to be active in order to control the seizures and achieve the goal of gradually.

Sudden death may still be related to epilepsy, but it is still possible to know by autopsy.

Most of the deaths of epilepsy patients are accidents caused by sudden conditions, and the general epilepsy patients will not die suddenly, unless the onset of severe epilepsy patients is too long for more than 20 minutes, resulting in cerebral hypoxia, ischemic brain damage causes systemic failure and death. Therefore, if there is no accident or brain hypoxia for too long, epilepsy will not die suddenly. If you usually pay attention to rest and keep your mood happy, the chance of developing the disease will not be so high.

Epilepsy is what people often call epilepsy or epilepsy. Epilepsy is a disorder of brain dysfunction caused by brain abnormalities, and patients with epilepsy may experience varying degrees of abdominal pain, cramps, coma, or hallucinations. If you experience these symptoms, it is important to seek medical attention promptly.

Epilepsy may have trauma, asphyxia, cerebral edema, etc., which can be life-threatening.

1.Trauma: Some patients may fall due to loss of consciousness and uncontrolled limbs during seizures, and because the body does not have a reflex protective reflex, the fall may be more serious, such as falling from a height, on the road, etc., and sometimes it can be life-threatening.

2.Asphyxia: When the patient has a generalized attack, the loss of consciousness, the muscles of the whole body convulsions, the pharyngeal muscles can spasm, causing laryngeal edema, the patient can not carry out gas exchange in time, suffocation, or there is a foreign body in the oral cavity during the attack into the airway to cause the obstruction of the respiratory tract, which can also cause suffocation, which is life-threatening.

3.Cerebral edema: patients with long-term epilepsy and generalized seizures, and long-term abnormal discharge of brain neurons can cause brain function and metabolism disorders, resulting in cerebral edema and brain herniation, which can seriously compress the respiratory and heartbeat centers, and be life-threatening.

When the patient has epilepsy that has not been controlled, the accompanying person should be strengthened, and it is best to keep someone to avoid the danger of the disease attack.

Most seizures are short-lived, and even if there is temporary respiratory depression, it does not lead to death. However, attention should be paid to sudden aspiration, accidental injury, and death due to brain function and other vital organ failure due to severe status epilepticus.

Therefore, special emphasis should be placed on taking medication regularly for epilepsy patients and their families to avoid sudden withdrawal of medication on their own, which induces severe status epilepticus and endangers their lives. When seizures are frequent, attention should be paid to the child's accompaniment, avoid climbing, swimming and other potentially dangerous sports, if it is a sudden seizure on the road, it is very likely to cause a car accident, epilepsy patients should try to avoid dangerous places and dangerous goods, should not be engaged in high-altitude work and highly stressful work, such as mountaineering, swimming, driving, cycling, epilepsy patients should not be alone by the river, by the stove, go out alone at night. reduce exposure to foods that are prone to aspiration; Once the seizure is properly cared for, lie on your side, keep your airway open, and quickly clear your mouth of food, secretions, or vomit to prevent suffocation caused by aspiration.

The essence of epileptic seizures is the abnormal discharge of nerve cells in the brain, simply put, there is a force in the human brain to prevent and promote discharge, and under normal circumstances, a good balance is maintained between the two When the force to promote discharge is too strong, or the force to prevent discharge is weakened, the balance between the two will be broken, resulting in the synchronization and propagation of abnormal discharge.

Our normal brain is discharging all the time, many of the functional activities of the brain are conducted through electrical signals, epilepsy is commonly known as "epilepsy", which is caused by abnormal discharge of brain neurons (all kinds of **), abnormal discharge affects the normal function of the body dominated by the brain, so it causes epilepsy. Of course, there are many causes of abnormal brain discharge, such as genetics, abnormalities of the brain itself (brain tumors, infections, trauma, etc.).

Epilepsy is a transient, refluxing brain dysfunction caused by abnormal overfiring of neuronal cells in the brain. This abnormal discharge, which the patient does not feel and cannot be seen by others, can be recorded by electroencephalogram.

At present, the cause of epilepsy is not very clear, and it is mainly related to infection, tumor, stroke and brain damage.