Causes of epilepsy, causes of epilepsy

Updated on healthy 2024-05-05
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Epilepsy is extremely complex, and the causes of epilepsy vary depending on the age group. 1. Epilepsy that begins in the neonatal period (1 month): ** includes perinatal brain injury, metabolic disorders, electrolyte disorders such as calcium and sodium, hyperbilirubinemia, infection, congenital brain development malformations and congenital inherited metabolic defects.

    2. Epilepsy starting from 2-6 months: **Including central nervous system infection, electrolyte disorders, congenital inherited metabolic defects, perinatal brain injury, congenital brain development defects and brain degenerative diseases. 3. Epilepsy that begins between 7 months and 3 years of age:

    **Includes febrile seizures, central nervous system infections, toxic encephalopathy, brain malformations, congenital inherited metabolic defects, neurodegenerative diseases, perinatal brain injury, and idiopathic epilepsy. 4. Epilepsy from age 3 to school age: **Including idiopathic epilepsy, central nervous system infection, metabolic disorders, brain tumors, inherited metabolic diseases or neurodegenerative diseases, etc.

    5. 10 Epilepsy that begins in adolescents aged 18 years:** includes idiopathic epilepsy, head injury and brain tumors. 6. Epilepsy starting at the age of 18-60:

    **Includes idiopathic epilepsy, head injury, brain tumors, and alcohol or other drug withdrawal. Seven: Epilepsy that began over 60 years old:

    The main ** are stroke, intracranial tumors, degenerative diseases, and head trauma.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Symptoms of epilepsy.

    Common auras can be special sensory visual hallucinations, olfactory hallucinations, vertigo, and general sensory limb numbness and electric shock. This is one of the symptoms of common epilepsy. About half of patients have aura, which refers to experiences that occur in the moments leading up to loss of consciousness.

    After the convulsions stopped, the patient entered a comatose and comatose state, and then gradually became awake, and some patients had abnormal mental behavior during the awakening process, manifested as struggle, resistance, and restlessness.

    Simple partial seizures: also known as localized seizures. Seizures that are not accompanied by impaired consciousness are motor, sensory, and autonomic symptoms and are one of the symptomatic manifestations of epilepsy.

    The above are just some of the precursors that people with epilepsy exhibit. Because there are many symptoms of epilepsy, this is only a part, in addition to these aspects, epilepsy patients will also show symptoms of grand mal seizures, such as: foaming at the mouth, general convulsions and other symptoms.

    Because each person's constitution will be different, the symptoms of epilepsy will be slightly different.

    Knowing more about these aspects has a great effect on the timely medical treatment and diagnosis of epilepsy patients. However, you must not arbitrarily conclude that it is a symptom of epilepsy through some of the above symptoms, and you must go to a regular hospital for examination. If you still have any questions or other related questions that you want to consult, you can click on **Epilepsy Expert to ask, the expert will provide you with more professional and detailed answers, and finally the epilepsy expert wishes the patient a speedy recovery!

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    For sudden epilepsy, people will be frightened when they hear it, because this is a sudden disease, if the seizure is not treated in time, it will be life-threatening in severe cases, so we need to know more about sudden epilepsy, for different types of epilepsy reaction symptoms are different, the following will introduce the causes of sudden epilepsy.

    For the causes of sudden epilepsy, first of all, we have to understand that sudden epilepsy symptoms are transient brain dysfunctional diseases, with a high incidence, which can occur at any age, especially in adolescents, when epileptic seizures occur, patients often scream, faint to the ground, convulsions of limbs, upward vision of both eyes, urinary incontinence, etc., disappear after a few seconds or minutes, and some patients will have temporary impairment of consciousness.

    It is estimated that there are about 9 million epilepsy patients in China, of which 500 6 million are active epilepsy patients, and about 400,000 new epilepsy patients are added every year, and epilepsy has become the second most common disease in neurology in China after headache.

    In addition to the causes of sudden epilepsy, heavy physical work, strenuous sports and other activities can induce seizures, excessive mental work, mental tension, sadness, sorrow, excessive excitement can also induce seizures, and lack of sleep can also induce epilepsy.

    The harm caused by sudden epilepsy to patients is huge, and it must be dealt with in a timely manner when the seizure occurs, and the patient and his family should also learn more about the common sense of epilepsy, and once the seizure occurs, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time to receive it**.

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