What are the causes of epilepsy

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Nephew got a kind of disease. When he got sick, he would lie on the ground, twitch all over his body, foam at his mouth and roll his eyes. It was like being possessed by something. The doctor said it was Capricorn. Now I'll tell you the causes of epilepsy.

What are the causes of epilepsy

First: primary epilepsy refers to the absence of brain organic or metabolic disease, can not find any reason for a class of epilepsy, belongs to primary epilepsy. Secondary epilepsy is caused by a variety of brain organic lesions or metabolic disorders, such as: congenital brain dysplasia, birth injury, high fever, convulsion, brain injury, brain abscess, brain tumor, encephalitis, cerebrovascular disease, poisoning, nutritional and metabolic diseases.

Second: there are many causes of epilepsy, including brain lesions or diffuse lesions, systemic metabolic poisoning, and some unknown causes. In clinic, among the common causes, brain trauma, brain tumor, cerebrovascular disease and intracranial infection are particularly important.

Third: epilepsy caused by systemic factors, such as carbon monoxide poisoning, hypoglycemia, acute and chronic renal failure, hypertensive encephalopathy, islet adenoma, hypocalcemia, hyperthyroidism, as well as a variety of systemic infections, vitamin B6 deficiency and so on, may cause epilepsy.

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There are many causes of epilepsy, some of them are genetic, most of them are caused by acquired reasons. For example, intracranial infection is extremely easy to cause epilepsy, which reminds us to pay special attention to this situation and treat the disease as soon as possible.