What are the symptoms of early epilepsy?
A: When epilepsy is mentioned, a scene of a person falling to the ground, twitching limbs and foaming at the mouth may appear in everyone’s mind. In fact, this situation may be a type of seizure performance, because the performance is more frightening, so it is just impressive and widely circulated. In fact, seizures are not only convulsions, but also other manifestations such as freezing, slamming of the mouth, and shaking of the hands. In medical terms, epilepsy is a chronic brain disease. In layman’s terms, the human brain is composed of billions of nerve cells, which are connected together to form a neural network. Theoretically, seizures can manifest as all functional brain symptoms, such as the most common motor symptoms, twitching, jerking, groping, smashing of the mouth, etc. Sensory symptoms, such as numbness and pain. Psychiatric symptoms, depression, anxiety, irritability, hallucinations, delusions, etc. Cognitive symptoms, forgetfulness, inability to find places, not recognizing familiar people, etc. Consciousness symptoms, fogginess, confusion, etc. If a person has these symptoms and they come in bursts, they should go to the hospital to be seen by a doctor.
What are the treatments for epilepsy?
A: There are many treatments for epilepsy, but in order to cure epilepsy, the cause of epilepsy must be found first. Only by removing the cause of epilepsy can epilepsy be cured and cured. If the cause of epilepsy is not found after a variety of tests, then anti-epileptic treatment should be taken. Currently, effective treatments have been clearly identified including 1. antiepileptic drug therapy, which is the mainstream of current antiepileptic treatment. After regular antiepileptic drug therapy, about 70% of seizures can be controlled; 2. surgical treatment. Through comprehensive assessment, the location of origin of epilepsy is removed to achieve control of epilepsy; 3. Neuromodulation therapy. As a complementary treatment to pharmacological and surgical treatment, it is indicated for patients with refractory epilepsy and is used to reduce seizures through electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex and electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve.4. Ketogenic diet, which is effective in some children with epilepsy, is a diet high in fat, low in carbohydrates and appropriate protein, and the ketone bodies produced by metabolism exert an antiepileptic effect. In conclusion, because each person’s body and disease condition is different, you need to go to the hospital and ask the doctor who has been diagnosed to choose the appropriate treatment method and individualize the treatment so that you can cure and cure epilepsy.
What happens when the brain generates abnormal electricity without triggering epilepsy?
A: The human brain is a neural network formed by billions of interconnected neurons. The difference between epileptic neurons and normal neurons is in the abnormal discharge. The EEG can capture the abnormal discharge of epileptic neurons in the brain, which we call epileptiform discharge. Although there are abnormal discharges of epileptic neurons in the brain during normal times when there is no seizure, the number of neurons involved in abnormal discharges is small and not enough to cause a seizure. As more and more nerves are involved in abnormal discharges, the abnormal discharges become more widespread and spread to distant areas, and when the energy accumulates to a certain level, it can cause seizures. Therefore abnormal discharges in the brain below the critical level can cause no seizures. In general, not all abnormal brain discharges will cause seizures, but only when the abnormal discharges in epilepsy form a certain rhythmic scale with increasingly strong rhythms will they trigger seizures.
