Ask questions about the treatment of childhood epilepsy 80

Hello! The best way to target epilepsy is to remove epileptic foci from the brain. However, there are some patients who can never find the cause of the disease and can only treat the symptoms**. Medication is currently the most commonly used and effective method of epilepsy.

Drugs** have a short-lived effect, so it is necessary to choose the appropriate drug according to the different types of seizures, such as grand mal seizures, petit mal seizures, localized seizures, and psychomotor seizures.

The dose of the drug should be the smallest dose that can control the attack without toxic reactions, and it will take about 1 2 years to reduce the drug too quickly after the attack is completely controlled. Adherence to standardized medication can effectively control most seizures.

For every seizure, the damage to the brain is aggravated by one seizure. Mental retardation is caused by the epilepsy disorder itself, not as a result of medications**. There are many parents who are afraid of adverse drug reactions, hesitate, or reduce the dose at will, or stop the drug at will, resulting in epilepsy reversal, which has never been effectively controlled, which is worth reflecting on.

It is recommended to choose a trustworthy hospital to establish a long-term medical relationship, and it is best to fix a doctor relatively well, so that the doctor can be familiar with and grasp your son's condition and ensure the continuity of the disease.

The ** of childhood epilepsy is very important in the choice of drugs, and it is best to use traditional Chinese medicine**, which has obvious advantages in this regard, and traditional Chinese medicine is essentially different from anti-epileptic Western medicine. Western anti-epilepsy can only temporarily control and alleviate symptomatic seizures, but cannot be completely avoided, and can easily cause memory loss, slow reaction, drowsiness, drowsiness, lack of energy, liver and kidney function damage and other poisons. Through the overall conditioning of traditional Chinese medicine and symptomatic medication, the damaged cranial nerves can be slowly repaired, and there is no impact on the intelligence of the child, so as to achieve thoroughness.

Western medicine can only be controlled, Chinese medicine can, must be dialectically accurate to form a prescription, flexible changes can meet the condition, there is no panacea in the world, Western medicine can damage the brain very badly, Chinese medicine can also restore wisdom after Chinese medicine.

You can go to Beijing for surgery, and you can find out what hospital it is, but the cost of surgery is large, about tens of thousands.

The occurrence of epilepsy in children is related to many factors, some uncontrollable factors will cause children to have symptoms of epilepsy, if there is no timely intervention and **, the harm to children is very great. Can childhood epilepsy be cured? At present, there is no special drug that can quickly improve children's epilepsy, and it can only prevent the continuous reversal of epilepsy through various means to avoid serious sequelae.

If childhood epilepsy is often reversed, it is recommended to take medication systematically under the guidance of a professional doctor. Some complications that occur during the attack period are controlled and relieved by choosing the appropriate medication**. You can also take some traditional Chinese medicine to suppress seizures.

The use of drugs must be cautious to avoid the emergence of drug resistance and various ***. Monotherapy** is not very effective and can be achieved through the use of a combination of drugs**.

The brain is often discharged abnormally, which may be a sign of some tumors or congestion, and usually the nerves in the brain are pinched, which can easily lead to epilepsy symptoms. After it is clear, surgery can be carried out under the advice of the doctor**, and the surgery for childhood epilepsy must be cautious, and all aspects need to be examined, and there is no problem before the operation can be performed. After surgery, it is necessary to observe for a long time, and if there is any abnormality, seek medical attention promptly.

Epilepsy in children often has seizures, which have a great impact on the mental and psychological well-being of the patients. Many patients have seizures when they are in school, and it is difficult for guardians to take care of them, and at the same time, they often have seizures, which bring great fear and inferiority complex to patients, and they are prone to suffer from various mental diseases.

**Childhood epilepsy should be timely, and if childhood epilepsy wants to be thorough**, it must be alleviated and controlled by a combination of drugs, psychology, and surgery when necessary. Create a warm family environment for patients to avoid constant anxiety and tension. Patients can be encouraged to do more exercise to improve the body's immunity.

Childhood epilepsy is more harmful to children, and it is necessary to find out the ** and symptom type, and then treat the symptoms**. You can't take medicine by yourself, and you should take it on time according to the guidance of experts.

The application of antiepileptic drugs for epilepsy is a more traditional method, this method is to suppress the seizures of epilepsy through the application of drugs, so patients must follow the doctor's instructions to take the drug on time, and can not change or stop the drug without authorization.

Patient question: Can Chinese medicine ** epilepsy? Is it effective to take only Chinese medicine?

Prof. Hua Zhang: There is no absolute answer to this question. The current medical experience basically proves that the effect of traditional Chinese medicine ** epilepsy is definitely worse than that of Western medicine.

At present, it is definitely not possible to use Chinese medicine alone for epilepsy. However, if used properly, using Chinese medicine to regulate the child's physical state can help with epilepsy**.

Patient question: Many parents think that the *** of Chinese medicine is smaller than that of Western medicine, is this true?

Professor Zhang Hua: Many people think that traditional Chinese medicine is small, which is a misunderstanding. Whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, natural or synthetic, as long as there is a certain medicinal effect, there will be a corresponding one.

Patient question: If there is epilepsy with clear precipitating factors, is it possible to cure the precipitating disease, and epilepsy will be cured?

Professor Zhang Hua: This statement is not very appropriate, it should be said that it is the priority of the primary disease. If the underlying condition is well controlled, epilepsy will be easier to control. Even if the underlying disease is treated, seizures may occur, such as traumatic brain injury, and epilepsy will remain later.

Patient question: Is the length of medication the same for non-hereditary and hereditary epilepsy?

Prof. Zhang Hua: In principle, it should be the same, and long-term medication is required. If it is different, the difficulty of the drug is different. For example, encephalitis, trauma and intracranial ischemia and hypoxia, such children are more difficult, but there is no obvious difference in time.

Frequently Asked Questions on Medications for Pediatric Epilepsy**.

Patient question: Many parents think that their children are young and do not want their children to take medicine, so they only take medicine when they have a seizure, and do not take it when they do not have a seizure.

Professor Zhang Hua: This is definitely not going to work. Antiepileptic drugs work by keeping the concentration of the drug in the body at a certain level, thus controlling seizures of epilepsy. Eating or not eating during seizures can easily lead to drug failure and epilepsy is not well controlled.

Patient question: Will the child's epilepsy get worse and worse if the long-term irregular medication is used?

Professor Zhang Hua: There is such a possibility. Epilepsy has a basic characteristic, once the seizures start, they will become more frequent in the future, so it is very important to control the seizures early** and early.

Although there are many new antiepileptic drugs, they still cannot control seizures in all patients. Approximately 20-30% of patients cannot be controlled with medication and require further surgery**.

Patient question: Does it work for some parents to pinch their child during a seizure?

Professor Zhang Hua: There is no need to pinch people. The seizure itself is a short-lived process, the short is only a few seconds, the longest is a minute or two, and the longest is 5-10 minutes, and the pattern of seizures is from mild to severe, and then from severe to light, and finally stops.

Whether or not you pinch the person, it does not affect the seizure process, so there is no need to pinch the person.

Patient question: Will long-term use of anti-epileptic drugs affect the growth and development of children?

Professor Zhang Hua: Parents don't have to worry too much about this problem, although the drugs are indeed a little ***, but the new drugs released in recent years have little impact on the growth and development of children.

Whether the first seizure can be diagnosed with epilepsy depends on the specific situation, the previous definition of epilepsy requires more than 2 seizures, the new definition of epilepsy is at least 1 or more seizures, and it is important that there is a chronic and persistent lesion in the brain that causes seizures. Depending on your child's condition, there are typical seizures, and there are epileptiform discharges on the EEG when the seizures are not present, at least a "seizure" can be diagnosed. The seizure is a right-sided unilateral convulsion, and the epileptogenic focus should be in the left cortical motor area, which is a focal seizure.

It is not certain whether you need to start taking medication for the first episode. In my opinion, it's not too late to start taking medication when you have a second attack. This is because the initial period of taking medication does not absolutely prevent the appearance of a second seizure.

It is unrealistic to expect that there will not be a second attack once you take the drug.

Surgery for epilepsy is a good approach, but there are indications for surgery. There are not many epilepsy patients who are candidates for surgery**, and the efficacy of surgery** is limited. Until now, the drug is still the main means of epilepsy.

As long as the medication is taken properly, more than 80% of patients can be controlled relatively well. A significant number of patients have no seizures after a long period of drug control and can even stop taking the drug.

The effects of epilepsy on intelligence come from two sources. One is that there are many frequent seizures to the point that brain function is impaired; The second is the *** of traditional anti-epileptic drugs. The former can only be prevented by trying to control the number of seizures; The latter can reduce intellectual impairment through the use of some new-generation antiepileptic drugs***.

The new generation of antiepileptic drugs, with the exception of topiramate, has little effect on intelligence, and some even have a positive effect on intelligence. Of course, epilepsy with congenital intellectual disability, such as LG syndrome, is not included in the above two cases.