Does epilepsy affect intelligence? Can it be cured?

Hello, epilepsy can lead to brain dysfunction, which has a great impact on intelligence, and the reverse action of epilepsy is also very damaging to brain neurons and brain cells, and severe patients can lead to dementia, mental abnormalities, memory changes, personality changes, and so on. The sudden onset of epilepsy can easily lead to accidents and cause certain damage to the body, so once diagnosed, it is necessary to hurry up and carry out ** to avoid delaying the condition.

As long as it is timely, it will not have an impact, because I used to be a patient myself! But it's normal now, and I'm still in college this year! So be timely**, don't delay, but don't go to a small clinic or believe in the so-called home remedies, be sure to go to a professional hospital**.

These are all from my personal experience, I hope it will help you!

The mental retardation of children with epilepsy mainly depends on the degree of brain damage, and the important cause of mental retardation in children with epilepsy is its primary disease. Cognitive impairment in children with epilepsy is also related to the type of epilepsy, the frequency and duration of seizures, electroencephalography, and antiepileptic drugs. The types of epilepsy and the factors that affect the intelligence of children with epilepsy mainly include:

Secondary epilepsy, such as encephalitis, birth trauma, or congenital genetic disorders, can almost always lead to intellectual disability; In primary epilepsy, about 1 in 3 can develop intellectual disability.

Epilepsy. It will affect the patient's IQ, if the patient has seizures from a very young age, repeated seizures will cause ischemia and hypoxia in the body, and the brain is a tissue that is very sensitive to ischemia and hypoxia. If anti-epileptic drugs are used for a long time, it will also cause neurological inhibition of patients, which can easily cause a decrease in learning ability, memory loss, and IQ after a long time.

However, if it is an adult patient who has little effect on IQ, unless the patient's brain function is seriously impaired due to reflexive action and encephalopathy syndrome, as long as the drug controls epilepsy, several seizures a year or only 2-3 times, there is no obvious effect on the patient's cognitive function.

Epilepsy may affect intelligence, and people with epilepsy need long-term regular medication to control seizures, and the occasional seizure will not affect the patient's intelligence. If epilepsy is poorly controlled, the patient has long-term, recurrent, frequent seizures or status epilepticus, it can have adverse effects on the brain. The brain is a tissue that is very sensitive to ischemia and hypoxia, and hypoxia for more than 5 minutes may cause irreversible damage to neurons.

If the patient has frequent seizures or status epilepticus, it may cause irreversible damage to the brain and affect the patient's intelligence. At this time, it is recommended that the patient go to the hospital and use anti-epileptic drugs regularly under the doctor's instructions to reduce the number of seizures to less than 2-3 times within 1 year, and there will be no adverse effects on the patient's intelligence.