Is intractable epilepsy destined for lifelong medication?

Most of them require lifelong medication! Everything as the doctor says! Remember to see a specialist, don't go to the doctor!

This is a difficult disease, but I heard that some hospitals can be ** good.

Epilepsy is possible! Symptoms such as generalized spasms and convulsions, as well as impaired consciousness and fainting accompanied by seizures make patients suffer physically and mentally. However, neurologists said that epilepsy is actually possible to be cured, as long as you properly follow the doctor's instructions, take the medicine on time, return to the doctor, under the good control of the drug, if there is no disease for 3 years, you can gradually stop the drug, and treat it as an epilepsy cure!

Ms. Zhang said that she had suffered from epilepsy symptoms, but now she has significantly controlled it after taking her medication properly. (** Courtesy of Chairman Chen Ruizhen) Ms. Zhang, 36, has fainted since she was in middle school. In high school, he passed out more frequently and was accompanied by symptoms of convulsions all over his body, and was diagnosed with epilepsy after being sent to the hospital, but he did not face up to his illness and accept it at that time**. After leaving the society, when he worked in a fast-food restaurant, he was dismissed by his employer due to a seizure; He also fell ill on the way to work, and his face hit the ground causing a laceration on his lips, and he had to get 6 stitches, and he suffered physically and mentally.

1 out of every 160 people! 140,000 people suffer from epilepsy

Chen Ruizhen, chairman of the Taiwan Association of Friends of Epilepsy, said that according to clinical statistics, the prevalence of epilepsy in Taiwan is about 140,000 patients in Taiwan, which is estimated by the number of people, that is, 1 in 160 people are epilepsy patients.

In addition to suffering physically due to the disease, these epilepsy patients also experience a lot of psychological stress. In particular, when the vast majority of people do not understand what epilepsy symptoms are, they often misunderstand the situation that patients are mentally ill, resulting in unequal treatment of people with epilepsy in society and work.

Epilepsy ≠ psychiatric disorders Excessive electrical discharge of brain cells causes trouble

Chairman Chen Ruizhen emphasized that epilepsy has nothing to do with mental illness. In fact, epilepsy is a congenital or acquired brain disorder caused by excessive electrical discharge of brain cells. And depending on the location of the discharge, it will also cause different clinical manifestations.

However, convulsions or transient loss of consciousness are still predominant, the most common of which are as follows

It is understood that many people do not know much about epilepsy, and think that once they have epilepsy, they must take medication for life, but in fact, this idea is scientific. According to a large number of clinical findings, many patients can almost be well controlled after a comprehensive and systematic treatment, and some patients are not in the drug after they stop taking the drug, which also shows that the effect of the first has been achieved. However, it is not excluded that there will be some refractory epilepsy that requires long-term or lifelong medication, so let's find out according to the introduction of professional doctors from Fuzhou Mawei Epilepsy Hospital!

Although epilepsy is a special mental illness, and there is a certain degree of difficulty, but with the development of medical treatment in recent years, there have been certain breakthroughs in epilepsy, epilepsy experts from all walks of life have developed a lot of methods to assist epilepsy, which is of great help to the later stage of epilepsy, which is also one of the reasons why patients can control their condition well. Generally, the common methods of auxiliary ** include **** method, diet** method, psychological ** method, massage ** method, etc. These auxiliary methods can further consolidate the first effect, so that the condition can be completely controlled, and the final effect can be achieved.

Although there are many ways to epilepsy, almost all epilepsy patients will choose to use anti-epileptic drugs, mainly because anti-epileptic drugs have a good effect on many types of epilepsy, and are also well received by patients and their families. When the patient decides to use a drug for **, if the drug is taken on time and in accordance with the doctor's guidance for a long time, most of the patient's condition can be well controlled, but if the drug dose is increased or decreased, changed or stopped during the medication, it will only cause epilepsy to aggravate, and in severe cases, refractory epilepsy will gradually form, and it is possible to take the drug for life, which is worse than death for the patient, therefore, the process must follow the doctor's instructions to operate. According to the above introduction to epilepsy, I believe you have some understanding, it is not difficult to see that epilepsy does not require lifelong medication, as long as you pay attention to daily care, and then cooperate with the doctor to do a good job, most patients will return to a normal life.

It is a recurrent and sudden onset of transient abnormalities in brain function, which is generally related to genetics, brain diseases, etc.

Guidance: If epilepsy is more difficult, it is recommended to use drugs to control the aggravation of the disease, such as pitatriazine, diazepam, etc., to maintain emotional stability.

It is usually necessary to take anti-epileptic drugs at the time of seizure**.

Guidance: Usually pay attention to develop good living habits and eating habits, pay attention to quitting smoking and drinking, prevent epilepsy, and avoid overwork.

If a child takes medication and does not necessarily have drug-refractory epilepsy. Make sure that your child's nervous system has no other malformations or lesions, such as brain tumor, meningitis, brain malformations, etc., and then prescribe anti-epileptic drugs to your child. If the first antiepileptic drug does not work, switch to a second one; The second one doesn't work, change the third.

Epilepsy medications are tried. It takes about a year to determine whether a child has drug-refractory epilepsy.

Why do some children still can't control their seizures after taking medicine, but the doctor says that it is not drug-refractory epilepsy?

When the child first starts taking anti-epileptic drugs, epilepsy will still have seizures, and some parents think that this medicine will not work. In fact, anti-epileptic drugs should generally be taken at a small dose and gradually increase until the dose is reasonable and effective. Therefore, the child will still have seizures when he takes the medicine at the beginning, which is not drug-refractory epilepsy.

With the dosage adjusted, the epilepsy can be controlled in about a month or two. If the seizures continue after a month or two, it is usually considered that the drug is ineffective and the drug should be changed. Generally, after switching to 2 or 3 drugs, it is still ineffective, and it can be determined that it is drug-refractory epilepsy.