Are stem cells reliable for epilepsy?

With the further development of stem cell research technology, stem cell technology has attracted more and more attention, and has been used for various diseases, bringing good news to patients with major diseases.

Generally, for epilepsy patients who do not have seizures for half a year to a year, they can choose to do stem cell transplantation, the effect is still relatively significant, for epilepsy patients are frequently not recommended to do stem cell transplantation, please consider carefully, it is recommended to go to Beijing Haizong Pediatrics to have a look, where the technology is the largest stem cell transplant unit in the whole army and northern China.

Stem cell transplantation can be **epilepsy**, but it can only be transplanted if there are no frequent seizures after epilepsy symptoms have been treated with medication**, so you still need to go to the hospital for consultation. The doctor has to look at the patient to tell you if you can have a transplant. At present, there are many hospitals that do stem cells, but it is still recommended to go to some tertiary hospitals, which will be ***.

The use of stem cell transplantation for various neurological diseases is still very effective, about epilepsy also depends on the age of the patient, the time of onset, the degree of illness, etc., I have seen a report that there are foreign children after transplantation, there are obvious curative effects. Whether it is suitable for you, you have to find a hospital near your home that has this project research, and find a doctor to consult on the spot.

Epilepsy is a disease in which the abnormal function of the motor and sensory, sensory, conscious, mental, and autonomic nerves is caused by paroxysmal abnormal discharges of neurons in the brain for a variety of reasons. Modern medicine believes that the causes of epilepsy can be divided into two categories: primary (functional) epilepsy and secondary (symptomatic) epilepsy.

1): Primary epilepsy is also known as true or idiopathic or cryptogenic epilepsy. The true cause of this is unknown.

Although it has been examined by various modern diagnostic methods, it is still not clear. (2) Secondary epilepsy: also known as symptomatic epilepsy.

Refers to epilepsy that can be found.

The technology of using stem cells for epilepsy in foreign countries is relatively mature and has successful cases, but domestic stem cells are mainly used in bone diseases, liver diseases and muscular dystrophy, and the effect on neurological diseases is not significant.

Problem analysis: Epilepsy is a chronic disease, which is not well controlled, and can be delayed for several years, or even decades, for this reason, many epilepsy patients are pessimistic about whether the disease can be cured.

Opinions: It must be pointed out that most epilepsy has a good recovery, and when there is a lot of noise, there are a few epilepsy that are difficult to control, and the post-recovery appearance is not ideal. Epilepsy patients should be optimistic, establish confidence in overcoming the disease, adhere to the long-term **, and stop the drug after a longer remission period.

OK. The incidence of epilepsy in children with brain injury is significantly higher than that of normal children of the same age, which can be as high as about 40, and among the more than 100 cases of neural stem cell transplantation we performed, there were 4 cases of abnormal EEG abnormalities before surgery, and the postoperative EEG returned to normal, including 1 case of children with preoperative EEG epilepsy waves returned to normal, so we can judge that with the improvement of brain symptoms after transplantation, some abnormal EEG including epilepsy will also be improved. However, some children have convulsive seizures after transplantation, or the number of seizures increases in a short period of time after transplantation, because neural stem cells will continue to secrete a large amount of nerve growth factor after entering the human brain, which will cause excitatory and generalization of the nervous system, and the correlation between the two is still under further observation.

Children with seizures will take different doses and types of anti-epileptic drugs, such as debajin, totai, phenobarbital and other drugs, anti-epileptic drugs have inhibition of nerve cell electrical activity, sedative and anticonvulsant effects, for the transplanted neural stem cells may also have an inhibitory effect, and in clinical observation, we found that children taking anti-epileptic drugs have poor postoperative effects, so for children with epilepsy, we recommend parents to choose carefully**. View the original post