Why do adults still get epilepsy?

There are many causes of epilepsy in adults, and some patients are related to genetic factors, these patients may be due to genetic mutations, chromosomal abnormalities that cause abnormal synchronized firing of neurons in the skull, and patients can have seizures.

In addition, if there is intracranial ischemia, hypoxia, such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, it is also easy for patients to have seizures, and some patients are prone to seizures if there are intracranial metastases, such as lung cancer brain metastases, liver cancer brain metastases or brain metastases caused by tumors in the throat, nasopharyngeal cancer brain metastases will also have seizures, and some patients are also prone to seizures if they have central nervous system infections, such as viral encephalitis, bacterial encephalitis, and parasitic infections. The following: First, tumors, intracranial tumors can directly cause seizures, and extracranial tumors can become the cause of epilepsy through metastasis or paraneoplastic syndrome.

Second, head trauma, brain surgery, and head trauma can all cause seizures. Third, central nervous system infections, tuberculous meningitis, neurosyphilis, and viral encephalitis are the most common forms of epilepsy. Fourth, cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy caused by cerebrovascular disease mainly refers to seizures that occur two weeks after the onset of cerebrovascular disease.

Fifth, parasitic infections. Sixth, secondary encephalopathy, such as delayed carbon monoxide toxic encephalopathy.

The sudden appearance of syncope and convulsions in adults is determined to be caused by epilepsy, and the cause is mostly caused by secondary factors. Including cerebrovascular diseases or encephalitis, tumors, hypoglycemia and other causes. Therefore, it is best to determine the specific cause through blood and urine routine, liver and kidney function, and head CT or magnetic resonance examination.

Actively targeted**.

Epilepsy** includes both primary and secondary. Primary is caused by genetic factors, especially pediatric epilepsy, the onset of epilepsy has a greater relationship with genetic factors, most of the hereditary epilepsy belongs to benign epilepsy, only in infancy and early childhood, with the increase of age, some children can disappear symptoms or have fewer seizures. However, it cannot be ruled out that epilepsy in adults is not primary.

There are also the following causes of epilepsy in adults:

1. Intracranial tumors: In patients with epilepsy after the age of 30, in addition to brain trauma, brain tumors are also caused by epilepsy, especially slow-growing meningioma, glioma, astrocytoma, etc.

2. Cerebrovascular disease: In addition to the younger age when the seizure is caused by vascular malformation, cerebrovascular epilepsy is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. Hemorrhagic and ischemic cerebrovascular disease is also epilepsy**.

3. Infection: in various encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral abscess in the acute stage of congestion, edema, the influence of toxins and exudate in the blood can cause seizures, and the scars and adhesions formed after the disease may also become epileptic foci; Parasites, such as cerebral schistosomiasis and neurocysticercosis, are epilepsy**. 4. Poisoning:

Poisoning of lead, mercury, carbon monoxide, ethanol, etc., as well as systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, rapidly progressive nephritis, hypertension syndrome, uremia, etc., are also epilepsy**.

For adult epilepsy, the induction is closely related to genetic factors, and adult epilepsy is due to various brain damage and metabolic disorders, such as congenital diseases; prenatal and perinatal diseases; High fever, convulsions, dystocia, trauma, infection, poisoning, intracranial tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, nutritional and metabolic diseases, etc. are all involved.

There are many types of epilepsy, and the common ones are tumors, cerebral infarctions, cerebral hemorrhages, abnormal discharges of brain tissue after scarring caused by traumatic brain injury, and vascular malformations. Epilepsy is an abnormal discharge of brain cells due to various reasons, resulting in transient impairment of consciousness in brain function, manifested by sudden convulsions, trismus, foaming at the mouth, etc.

Excessive stress in life, lack of sleep, irregular diet, smoking and alcohol abuse can all lead to epilepsy.

Suggestions: To prevent epilepsy, we should get enough sleep in our daily life, eat modestly, try to avoid drinking and smoking, do not take drugs, and pay attention to avoid excessive mental fatigue.

There are two types of epilepsy: primary and secondary, and the secondary form is epilepsy caused by a certain disease or other cause, such as trauma. So adults can also have epilepsy.

In patients with epilepsy, it is caused by abnormal discharge of brain cells (radio waves), brain damage, brain parasites, brain tumors, etc. It can occur in all ages.

There are many causes of epileptic seizures, such as the probability of epilepsy when newborns have birth trauma, hypoxia, genetics and other conditions during childbirth, and epilepsy in adults may be due to seizures caused by craniocerebral trauma, poisoning, bacterial infection, viral infection, etc., and most of the epilepsy in the elderly is due to brain tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, metabolic problems, etc., resulting in epileptic seizures.

Of course, there are some cryptogenic patients who cannot accurately identify the specific cause of epilepsy, and the difficulty of such patients in the process will be relatively greater.

With the usual habits or suddenly frightened.

Epilepsy, commonly known as epilepsy, is a chronic brain disease caused by sudden, recurrent and transient central nervous system dysfunction caused by excessive discharge of neurons in the brain.

The causes of epilepsy are classified as primary and secondary.

Primary epilepsy.

It is caused by genetic factors.

Secondary epilepsy is usually caused by lesions inside and outside the skull.

1.Trauma: Birth and head injury is a common cause of epilepsy.

Brain contusion, hemorrhage, and ischemia may also lead to local brain tissue malaplacia and become epileptic foci.

2.Poisoning: Poisoning with lead, mercury, carbon monoxide, ethanol, etc., as well as systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, hypertension syndrome, rapidly progressive nephritis, uremia, etc., are all causes of epilepsy.

3.Febrile seizures: Severe or frequent febrile seizures in childhood can easily cause local cerebral hypoxia or edema, and later form epilepsy foci and cause illness.

4.Infection: congestion, edema, toxin effects and exudates in the acute phase of various encephalitis, meningitis, and brain abscess can cause seizures, and scars and adhesions formed after healing may also become epileptic foci;

5.Parasites: such as cerebral schistosomiasis and neurocysticercosis are often causes of epilepsy.

It is recommended that this situation should be systematically examined, especially the head examination. The possibility of congenital malformations is not ruled out, and the patient's mood is ensured as much as possible.

**Idiopathic childhood epilepsy accounts for 20% of all epilepsy patients, and no cause has been found, and most of them are genetic, so it is also called cryptogenic epilepsy or hereditary epilepsy.

Secondary childhood epilepsy refers to the seizures produced by abnormal brain structure or function and abnormal discharge of neural networks due to some unexpected reasons in the process of children's growth and development

1.Perinatal ischemia-hypoxic brain injury.

It is mainly caused by birth trauma, asphyxia, intracranial hemorrhage, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, among which hypoxia-ischemic encephalopathy is the most common in patients with epilepsy.

2.Congenital malformations of brain development.

Such as anencephaly, megaencephaly, polyencephaly, gray matter heterotopia, cerebral perforation malformation, congenital hydrocephalus, corpus callosum hypoplasia, arachnoid cyst, megaencephaly.

3.Neurological syndrome.

The most common are tuberous sclerosis and facial angiomatosis.

4.Inherited metabolic disorders.

Such as phenylketonuria, hyperammonemia, cerebral lipidosis, vitamin B6 dependence.

5.Intracranial infection.

Such as bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis, brain abscess, fungal meningitis, brain parasitic disease, post-vaccination encephalitis, etc.

6.Nutritional metabolism disorders and endocrine diseases.

Common hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesia, and hypothyroidism.

7.Cerebrovascular disease.

Such as cerebrovascular malformation, cerebral vasculitis.

8.Trauma. Intracranial hemorrhage, skull fracture, cerebral contusion, etc. caused by trauma.

9.Brain tumors.

For example, glioma and astrocytoma, tumors located in the parietal, frontal, and temporal lobes often cause epilepsy.

10. Brain degenerative diseases.

Macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

11.Toxic encephalopathy.

drug intoxication; Food poisoning, carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, organophosphate poisoning, heavy metal poisoning (mercury, lead, arsenic), etc.

Hope it helps. It is recommended to go to a regular specialist hospital.

It is generally accepted that three factors are required for the seizure of epilepsy:

1. The genetic predisposition of the body, that is, the convulsive threshold is low; Everyone has a threshold for seizures that they have after birth, some people are high, some people are low. In a certain environment, people with a low "seizure threshold" may have seizures, while people with a normal "seizure threshold" in the same environment will not have this phenomenon.

2. There is a pathological injury to the brain that can cause seizures.

3. Predisposing factors of seizures. The first two factors are the most important, and in the case of a high convulsive threshold, even if there are ** or precipitating factors that cause the seizure, they do not necessarily cause the seizure; Conversely, in the case of a low convulsive threshold, a seizure can be caused by a single ** or precipitating factor. For example, traumatic brain injury is one of the most common types of epilepsy, but patients with the same traumatic brain injury do not always have seizures, and those with a low seizure threshold may develop epilepsy, while those with a high seizure threshold do not have epilepsy.

Seizure thresholds play a major role here.

It may be caused by too much mental pressure and too depressed life, so you should relax appropriately and take things lightly. Guoren, Meng Yinhua is quite famous. Check it up. ，

1. Limb pain epilepsy, characterized by paroxysmal pain in the limbs and joints, is often misdiagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, neurosis, radiculitis or poliomyelitis. The children's symptoms are severe limb pain, sudden onset, abrupt stop, and self-relief without medication. The patient is conscious at the time of the attack.

Disorganized seizures and some sexual seizures: psychosocial, psychomotor, and mixed. Most people have varying degrees of intellectual impairment and significant psychological, emotional, and psychomotor disorders.

Automatic symptoms such as wandering and night travel occur, and sometimes violent acts such as injury and self-injury occur under the distribution of hallucinations and dreams.

2. Intracranial infection: such as encephalitis, meningitis, brain abscess, neurocysticercosis, cerebral echinococcosis, cerebral schistosomiasis, cerebral toxoplasmosis, cerebral trichinosis and cerebral malaria caused by various bacterial, viral, fungal infections and parasitic infections.

3. Foreign toxins: heavy metals, harmful gases, chemicals and drug poisoning can cause brain damage and lead to seizures.

Intracranial infection is a bacterial viral parasitic intracranial infection, which can cause encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, meningoencephalitis, arachnoiditis, brain abscess, etc., and is the first of epilepsy.

Epilepsy is generally divided into idiopathic and secondary, generally idiopathic, most of which are congenital inheritance, mostly occur before puberty, with your age, it may be more secondary epilepsy, secondary epilepsy is more common in some brain diseases, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for a clear diagnosis.

There are two types of epilepsy: primary and secondary. Secondary as the name suggests, is epilepsy due to acquired certain factors, such as trauma, etc., this epilepsy is acquired, all will not be inherited. However, if it is a primary epilepsy, it means that there is no way to explain the cause of epilepsy, and there is still a little genetic risk.

Especially if there is a positive family history, it is still necessary to avoid pregnancy. If not, you also need to have children after 3 years of positive **, but there is still a genetic risk.

The doctors of Urumqi People's Hospital wish you good health.

It is very important for epilepsy, epilepsy patients will have a calm psychological burden after suffering from epilepsy, and often have chest tightness, depression, irritability, and anxiety, which are very unfavorable to epilepsy. A good state of mind has a good auxiliary effect on the development of primary epilepsy.

You can go to the Xinjiang People's Hospital and ask.

Epilepsy is usually caused by sudden electrical discharge of cranial nerves, and most of them are cranial nerve changes.

Hello, most epilepsy has no known cause. Only a small number may be related to abnormal brain development, cranial vascular malformation, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, brain tumor, etc. If the epilepsy is just this time, it can be continued to be observed. However, if seizures are frequent, long-term oral antiepileptic drugs are recommended.

If there are no genetic factors, it is more likely to be due to trauma or tumor compression, parasitic infection, and systematic examination is recommended.

Epilepsy is commonly known as epilepsy or epilepsy, which is actually a chronic disease caused by sudden abnormal discharge of brain neurons, resulting in transient brain dysfunction, which has the characteristics of stereotyped, paroxysmal and reproducible. Epilepsy is divided into two types: primary and secondary, primary epilepsy is not yet clear, secondary epilepsy has its roots, that is, the cause of the disease can be found, for example, some patients are encephalitis, brain tumor, traumatic brain injury or cortical dysplasia, which can lead to the occurrence of epilepsy. Of course, there are some patients who are genetically related, and if there is a family member with epilepsy, then the incidence is 4-7 times higher than that of others.