Can epilepsy take traditional Chinese medicine?

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I've had epilepsy for more than 30 years. Better in recent years. I have feelings before I get sick and can subconsciously protect myself. But mood swings can make you sick. When you are sick, your abdomen will swell. Cramps and gnashing teeth. Sometimes they talk nonsense. It'll be all right in a few minutes. But I feel a lot of physical exertion. Some of the gas is not enough. Taking medication all the time. After treatment, now the basic recovery, epilepsy can eat Chinese medicine? Now let's share with you.

Can epilepsy take traditional Chinese medicine?

Drug 1: epilepsy can take traditional Chinese medicine, choose the right medicine, there are many types of epilepsy, which requires the selection of appropriate drugs for different types, if the drug selection is wrong, not only can not cure the disease, but also can lead to adverse reactions due to drugs, making the disease worse. Therefore, epilepsy patients in the problem of drug selection, must be targeted and reasonable drug selection. In order to effectively control the disease.

Drug 2: choose good drugs. With the advent of new antiepileptic drugs, patients can have more choices and try to choose those low toxic antiepileptic drugs suitable for their own conditions.

Drug 3: single drug or combined drug can be used. For the treatment of epilepsy, single epilepsy drug should be used as far as possible to avoid drug interaction. For some patients, appropriate combination drug treatment can be selected, which can effectively control the disease, and the drug interaction will not be affected. We also need to regularly monitor, at the same time, we should strictly control the dosage of drugs, determine the minimum dose to control seizures, and regularly check the blood drug concentration and liver and kidney function indicators, so as to prevent abnormal situation and timely stop or adjust drugs, so as to control the disease.

matters needing attention

1. Epileptic patients should be psychologically prepared, and inform their family members or people around them. Because the attack is inevitable, they can be helped to bed if they have conditions and time. They can lie down when they have no time to prevent sudden loss of consciousness and fall. They can quickly remove the surrounding hard objects and sharp weapons to reduce the damage to the body when the attack occurs. As family members and people around them, we should closely observe the onset time of the patient, the duration of each attack (including the time of loss of consciousness, convulsion time), pay attention to observe the site of convulsion first, whether it is local or whole body, whether it is accompanied by loss of consciousness and binocular vision, fecal incontinence, etc. these manifestations are helpful for doctors to carry out positioning diagnosis. 2. In case of aura, first of all, protect the tongue. Before the attack, place the pressure plate wrapped with gauze between the upper and lower molars of the patient to avoid biting the tongue. If it is not put in before the attack, open the mouth of the patient during the ankylosis period and then put it in again. Do not force it in the clonic period to avoid hurting the patient. During the attack period, the patient should lie on his back, loosen his collar and turn his head to one side, so as to facilitate the discharge of respiratory secretions and vomit and prevent choking and suffocation caused by flowing into the trachea. When the outbreak of respiratory secretions more, easy to cause respiratory obstruction or aspiration pneumonia, convulsions when the mouth is not anything, do not fill medicine, to prevent suffocation. 3. Status epilepticus is a kind of critical illness. If it is not treated in time, it may lead to brain edema, brain hernia, respiratory and circulatory failure and death. Once the family members of patients with epilepsy find that the patient has status epilepticus, they should be sent to the hospital immediately. If they have phenobarbital injection, diazepam injection or enema at home before sending to the hospital, they can give drugs once, and then send them to the hospital. After sending to the hospital, they should report the disease process, administration time and dosage to the doctor in detail, so as to help the doctor master the condition of patients with epilepsy, Reasonable treatment.