Treatment of epilepsy

Epilepsy is currently a common disease, but it is still a major problem in the medical field. This is because epilepsy is a recurrent disease. Even with a short-term treatment effect, there is still a possibility of recurrence. Today's epilepsy patients span a wider age range, with children, teenagers, and middle-aged patients being more common. This is mainly because the causes of epilepsy are diverse, such as craniocerebral trauma, mental stimulation, and congenital heredity can all lead to epilepsy.

Epileptic patients are almost no different from normal people when they are not having an attack, but each attack will cause the patient's condition to worsen, and it will become more and more difficult to treat. Therefore, epilepsy must be treated as early as possible to avoid secondary damage caused by epileptic attacks. Let's learn about how to treat epilepsy.

The treatment of epilepsy should start with the mechanism of epileptic seizures. Currently, common treatments for epilepsy include drug therapy, surgical treatment, etc. Drugs can control epileptic seizures by reducing brain excitability, but drug treatment generally requires long-term medication and has significant side effects. Moreover, not all epilepsy patients are suitable for surgical treatment. Epileptic seizures are caused by abnormal discharges of neurons. Only by repairing the damaged neuronal cells can epileptic seizures be completely eliminated. It is recommended to go to a professional epilepsy hospital and adopt a treatment plan to repair damaged neuron cells. This can completely repair the damaged neuron cells and completely eliminate the onset of epilepsy.

The diet of epilepsy patients should be as diversified as possible, and they should eat more nutritious and easily digestible foods, such as pasta, beans, lean meat, eggs, fish, milk, etc. In particular, they should eat more beans, fresh vegetables, fruits, and dairy products. These foods are rich in high protein and phospholipids, which help restore brain function and reduce the number of seizures. In addition, epileptic patients should increase their magnesium intake. Epilepsy patients often suffer from magnesium deficiency, especially those who need long-term drug treatment. For example, long-term use of sodium phenytoin can easily cause osteoporosis. In addition to a high-calcium diet, attention should also be paid to magnesium intake.

Etiological treatment: This type of treatment means that when the patient is first diagnosed with epilepsy, he or she should be taken to a regular hospital for treatment in a timely manner. The doctor will conduct a systematic examination of the patient when the condition is relatively mild, carefully look for the cause of the disease, and then prescribe the right medicine to achieve a cure.

Dietary therapy: Dietary therapy for epilepsy in adults mainly refers to ketogenic diet therapy. This epilepsy treatment method is to use a diet formula high in fat and low in protein and carbohydrates to produce ketone bodies in the body to simulate the body's response to hunger to treat epilepsy. For epilepsy that is difficult to control with drugs, a trial of ketogenic diet therapy can be considered. Family members must strictly go to a qualified specialized epilepsy hospital and strictly follow the dietary plan for the treatment of epilepsy. Because it requires certain technical monitoring and has certain risks, patients and their families are not allowed to implement it without authorization.

Psychotherapy: Due to the long-term influence of the disease, patients often have a negative psychological effect on the treatment of the disease and their outlook on life, which will have a great negative effect on the treatment of the disease. Therefore, psychotherapy is also very important when treating the disease.

At present, the majority of patients have been looking for treatments for epilepsy, but do not easily believe some small medical advertisements that claim that epilepsy can be cured and will not recur, because the recurrence rate of epilepsy is still relatively high. You should choose a regular hospital for systematic and symptomatic treatment, and persist in it for a long time, which will be conducive to the recovery of epilepsy.