How does epilepsy come about

We all know that there are more and more epilepsy patients nowadays, and epilepsy patients will bring unimaginable burdens not only to their families but also to themselves. Therefore, when you find symptoms of epilepsy, you must seek medical attention in time to prevent the disease from further deteriorating, so as not to bring financial difficulties to your family and cause certain impacts on your physical and mental health. And the first symptom patients must be closely monitored, seek medical attention promptly, take medication actively, and cooperate with the doctor's treatment. So let’s take a look at how epilepsy comes about!

There are many causes of epileptic seizures.

1. Nutritional and metabolic diseases: hypoglycemia, diabetic coma, and hyperthyroidism can all cause epileptic seizures.

2. Poisoning: Lead, mercury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, hypertension syndrome, acute nephritis, uremia, etc. can all cause epilepsy.

3. Congenital diseases: such as chromosomal abnormalities, hereditary metabolic disorders, brain malformations and congenital hydrocephalus.

4. Intracranial tumors: For patients who develop epilepsy after the age of 30, brain tumors are a common cause, in addition to brain trauma, especially slow-growing oligodendrogliomas, meningiomas, astrocytomas, etc.

5. Trauma: Craniocerebral birth trauma is a common cause of symptomatic epilepsy in infancy and childhood. Contusion, hemorrhage and ischemia can also lead to local brain tissue softening and the formation of epileptic foci in the future. About 5% of adults develop epilepsy after closed head trauma, and the incidence of epilepsy in severe and open head trauma is even higher, reaching about 30%.

6. Cerebrovascular disease: Except for epilepsy caused by cerebral vascular malformations and aneurysms which occur at a younger age, cerebrovascular epilepsy is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. Both hemorrhagic and ischemic cerebrovascular disease can cause epilepsy.

7. Infection: Congestion, edema, toxic effects and exudates in the acute phase of various encephalitis, meningitis and brain abscesses may cause epileptic seizures. Scars and adhesions formed after recovery may also become epileptic foci. Parasitic diseases such as cerebral schistosomiasis, cerebral paragonimiasis, and brain cysticercosis often cause epilepsy.

8. Allergic diseases: such as tuberous sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, etc. are often accompanied by epileptic seizures.