Does epilepsy affect intelligence, and does epilepsy affect intelligence?

Hello, epilepsy is a common clinical disease, and its seizures are characterized by sudden and repetitive nature. It has a great impact on the patient's life, study and work, but most of the epilepsy can be controlled through regular **.

Epilepsy is extremely harmful, such as loss of consciousness during seizures resulting in physical falls, limb convulsions leading to abrasions and bruises, and mental abnormalities can cause self-injury and injury to others. In severe cases, apnea causes hypoxic edema and functional damage to brain tissue, and the high-frequency discharge of brain nerve cells directly causes damage to the brain, which leads to memory loss, reduced intelligence, and may cause learning difficulties in childhood.

Epilepsy is caused by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, and each seizure further damages the brain nerves, and each seizure has a certain impact on the patient's brain nerves and intelligence. I hope you will pay attention to it as soon as possible and do not ignore the seriousness of the disease. so as not to cause difficulties in the future.

It is recommended to go to a large local regular hospital** (such as Beijing **** in Beijing, Huashan Hospital in Shanghai), the experts are regular**, guaranteed! Patients report that the cost of private specialized hospitals** is generally high, the efficacy is uncertain, and the sense of responsibility is low. It is difficult to see a doctor, it is not easy to make money, and it is not appropriate to spend more money.

It will affect intelligence for a long time.

The harm of pediatric epilepsy may also lead to various encephalitis, and epilepsy caused by congenital genetic diseases can almost lead to mental retardation. In primary epilepsy, about 1 in 3 can develop intellectual disability. It is observed that people with more than one seizure a day have mental retardation, the longer the course of the disease, the more attacks, the greater the degree of damage to the brain, in addition, the closer the formal and reasonable ** to the first episode, the smaller the possibility of intellectual damage.

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.

Whether a person with epilepsy has mental retardation depends on the severity of the epilepsy.

If the disease is relatively mild, occasional seizures and each seizure is relatively short, it generally does not have a significant impact on the patient's intelligence, and the seizures can be controlled by reasonable diet, medication, appropriate exercise, and avoiding predisposing factors.

Patients with more severe epilepsy have a particularly high frequency of seizures, and the seizures are relatively long, and symptoms such as loss of consciousness, foaming at the mouth, and convulsions will suddenly appear, which may lead to cerebral hypoxia, brain block, brain dysfunction, etc., which may cause patients to have varying degrees of decline in intelligence.

Among people with epilepsy, there is a part of it that is a child or adolescent. Their parents tend to be more concerned about the question of whether epilepsy affects the patient's intelligence. Because this question can be related to the life of a person with epilepsy.

It can be said that this problem needs to be analyzed in detail, because some patients do have a certain impact on their intelligence. Depending on the ** that causes epilepsy, the effect on the patient's intelligence may be different. Some of the epilepsy causes ** itself is often accompanied by intellectual disability.

If the brain is not developed, the patient has both mental retardation and seizures, and mental retardation and seizures are both manifestations of brain hypoplasia.

In addition, epilepsy caused by encephalitis, meningitis, toxic encephalopathy, and hypoxic encephalopathy can also be combined with intellectual disability. Most of the epilepsy patients who do not have a clear ** have the same level of intelligence as normal people. Epilepsy can also be divided into different types, and the impact on intelligence will vary depending on these types.

Primary generalized epilepsy such as absence epilepsy, primary partial epilepsy such as BECCT, and benign occipital lobe epilepsy in children often have no significant effect on intelligence. Lennox syndrome in secondary generalized epilepsy almost always has severe intellectual disability.

Another type of epilepsy syndrome called infantile spasms is intellectually affected in more than 90% of children affected by this syndrome. If the patient's epilepsy has frequent seizures, it will also have a greater impact on intelligence. In addition to the type of seizure, the impact of seizure frequency on intelligence is also a major factor.

The author has conducted a systematic study on the intelligence of epilepsy patients and found that the seizure frequency is positively correlated with intellectual disability, that is, the higher the seizure frequency, the lower the intelligence. It should be noted that for a person with epilepsy, ** and the type of seizures are often immutable, but it is practical to reduce the impact on intelligence by reducing the frequency of seizures or completely controlling seizures.

It can be seen that there is no unified answer to the question of whether epilepsy affects the intelligence of patients, and different patients, different conditions and different seizure frequencies will have different effects on the intelligence of patients. And anti-epileptic drugs can also affect the patient's body and intelligence. Therefore, it depends on the actual situation of the patient.

Epilepsy is a relatively common neurological disorder, especially during childhood. The question of whether pediatric epilepsy will affect children's intelligence is also a concern for many parents, so will pediatric epilepsy affect intelligence?

Hello! Epilepsy can affect the normal development of intelligence, and studies have shown that epilepsy can affect intelligence. We know that the harm of epilepsy is very great, not only in the patient's body and life, but also in life, especially in children with epilepsy, because children suffering from epilepsy will affect intelligence, so it needs to be treated in time.

Hello, in this case, you can pay attention to a light diet, and you can pay attention to oral medication control.

In this case, you can pay attention to a light diet, and you can also pay attention to oral medication control. If you control it as soon as possible, it can be better. The above is a suggestion to the question of does epilepsy affect intellectual development, I hope it will help you, I wish you good health!