How is epilepsy caused? How to avoid it?

Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, which occur suddenly and unprovoked, and can occur in people of any age, and is one of the most common neurological disorders.

Seizures are caused by abnormal electrical discharges of neurons in the brain, including genetic factors, brain diseases, systemic diseases or systemic diseases, and endocrine changes, lack of sleep, age, etc. are the triggers of seizures. 1.Genetic factors are important triggers in epilepsy, and some epilepsy exhibits familial clustering.

Studies have found that the molecular mechanism of epilepsy is the alteration of certain molecular structures or ion channels, and that some epilepsy is related to genes. 2.Brain diseases, including congenital brain development abnormalities, primary or metastatic tumors in the brain, intracranial infections caused by parasitic infections, encephalitis and other reasons, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and a series of cerebrovascular diseases, including Alzheimer's disease.

3.Systemic diseases, including metabolic diseases such as uremia, hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hyperthyroidism or hypoparathyroidism, endocrine diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, poisoning caused by physical chemicals, etc. 4.

People with epilepsy are more likely to have seizures when they don't get enough sleep, and some women have seizures related to menstruation or pregnancy. Prevention of epilepsy is mainly aimed at the prevention of **. For example, do not drink raw water, do not eat unclean food to avoid parasitic infections, children are vaccinated to prevent central nervous system infections, protect the brain from accidental impacts, and avoid head trauma.

Epilepsy** is complex and diverse, including genetic factors, brain disorders, systemic or systemic disorders, and more.

Children with fever should be treated in time to avoid febrile seizures and damage to brain tissue. The child should also be cared for to avoid head trauma.

Young people, middle-aged people, and the elderly should pay attention to ensuring a healthy lifestyle to reduce the occurrence of encephalitis, meningitis, cerebrovascular disease and other diseases.

Live a regular life, rest on time, ensure adequate sleep, and avoid staying up late, fatigue, etc. Avoid watching TV, playing game consoles, etc. for a long time.

Eat a light diet, eat more vegetables and fruits, avoid coffee, cola, spicy and other stimulant drinks and foods, and quit smoking and alcohol. Avoid taking medications that contain caffeine, ephedrine. Penicillins or floxacin drugs can sometimes trigger flare-ups.

Take medication on time and regularly, and follow up with regular outpatient visits.

If you have epilepsy, don't be afraid to go to a regular and professional specialist epilepsy hospital**. Don't blindly go to some small clinics to delay your condition!

Adequate sleep: Lack of sleep can easily induce epilepsy, so we must ensure adequate sleep and do not stay up late, especially for patients with epilepsy.

Eat modestly: A full meal or starvation, as well as a large amount of water at one time, can induce epilepsy. Therefore, it is necessary to be properly nutritious, eat modestly, and avoid being too full or hungry or drinking a lot of water at one time.

In addition, drinking strong tea and eating foods containing a lot of caffeine, such as chocolate, can cause epileptic seizures, so they should be contraindicated.

Quit smoking and drinking: Tobacco and alcohol can induce epilepsy, especially drinking alcohol is more harmful, chronic alcoholism can cause changes in the structure and function of the cerebral cortex, so that epilepsy attacks. Abrupt withdrawal from alcohol in long-term addicts can also cause epileptic seizures.

Alcohol can also accelerate the metabolism of anti-epileptic drugs, reduce blood concentrations and reduce efficacy. Therefore, patients with epilepsy should abstain from all alcohol and alcoholic beverages.

Regular follow-up: anti-epilepsy**The whole process should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, and patients should not go to the doctor indiscriminately. In order to observe the effect and adverse reactions of the drug** and guide the patient to use the drug rationally, regular follow-up visits should be carried out for physical examination and necessary laboratory examinations.

Anti-epilepsy should be followed up once a week for 1-2 months, and once a month after 3 months. You should bring your medical card or medical record for your doctor's reference at each follow-up visit.

Standing medications: Patients with epilepsy should have enough commonly used drugs at home, as well as some anti-epileptic drugs that can act quickly and are easy to use, in case of sudden attacks.

1. For epilepsy caused by hereditary diseases, it is necessary to diagnose before labor, and find that the fetus with a certain hereditary disease and epilepsy can have an abortion, so as to reduce the occurrence of this type of primary epilepsy. 2. To prevent the predisposing factors of epilepsy: such as head trauma, brain infection, systemic inflammation, pregnancy infection, marriage between close relatives, drinking alcohol during pregnancy, smoking, high fever, etc.

In addition, in addition to paying attention to drugs**, epilepsy patients should try to eat less or not eat zinc-rich foods in their daily life. 3. Avoid the precipitating factors of epilepsy: such as drinking, fatigue, overeating, sleep deprivation, mental depression, infectious diseases, cold and fever, etc., only by doing these measures can we effectively prevent epileptic seizures.

4. How to avoid the harm caused by epilepsy? Epilepsy patients should avoid marrying people with a family history of epilepsy when choosing a marriage partner, and the fiancé or fiancée of an epilepsy patient is recommended to have electroencephalogram and brain CT and other related examinations before marriage, and people who both have a family history of epilepsy should also avoid marriage. 5. In order to prevent all kinds of epilepsy caused by brain injury at birth, for elderly primiparous mothers, if the delivery process is not expected to go smoothly, the fetus should be taken by caesarean section as soon as possible, so as to avoid the baby born due to asphyxia, hypoxia and birth trauma from suffering from epilepsy in the future.

6. Persistence. Epilepsy is a disease that can be done at any time, so you should insist on doing a good job in epilepsy, and it takes a long time for epilepsy, so you should maintain a good attitude and adhere to it. Follow the doctor's instructions and do not stop or change the medicine without permission.

The general disease may be a fall on the head when you are young, or a knock on the head when you are a big one, which will cause epilepsy.

The first point, the most important thing is to take oral anti-epileptic drugs regularly for a long time according to the doctor's instructions, and do not reduce or stop the drug casually, otherwise it is easy to induce status epilepticus. For epilepsy, the first drug should be maintained for a period of time, for example, for generalized tonic-clonic seizures, the drug should be controlled after 4-5 years before considering gradual reduction. The second point is to pay attention to avoid some triggers in ordinary times, never stay up late, do not drink, otherwise it is easy to induce epilepsy.

The third point is to be careful not to get infected, to avoid colds, once the infection causes a fever, the excitability of the cerebral cortex increases, and seizures can also occur, in addition to this, it is also necessary to be careful not to drink some drinks with stimulant effects.