Is epilepsy contagious

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My brother has frequent seizures of epilepsy, and every time he has a big seizure, his brain is burned out. After treatment, let me tell you whether epilepsy is contagious, which is a problem that everyone is very concerned about.

Is epilepsy contagious

First: epilepsy is divided into primary and secondary two categories, generally speaking, secondary epilepsy caused by lesions damage inside and outside the skull. For example, intracranial tumor, brain injury, brain abscess and encephalitis, this kind of secondary epilepsy is usually not hereditary.

Second: primary epilepsy was previously considered as a single gene dominant or recessive genetic disease. In recent years, it is considered to be a polygenic genetic disease.

Third: the children born to women with primary epilepsy are likely to get epilepsy, especially if they are close relatives or both men and women are patients with primary epilepsy, the risk of their children will increase many times;

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Some hereditary diseases will show epilepsy symptoms, such as tuberous sclerosis, phenylketonuria, galactosemia and other diseases. Although their clinical symptoms are secondary epilepsy, because these diseases are obvious genetic diseases, this kind of symptomatic epilepsy will certainly be inherited.