Can child epilepsy be cured in daily life

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My child always likes convulsions recently. We suspect that he has epilepsy. We want to give him treatment. After medication, the symptoms have obviously improved. I'm so happy. Now let me talk to you about whether children's epilepsy can be cured in daily life.

Can child epilepsy be cured in daily life

Drug 1: at present, the most commonly used drugs include traditional antiepileptic drugs such as carbamazepine, sodium valproate, and new antiepileptic drugs such as lamotrigine, topiramate, and oxcarbamate. These antiepileptic drugs are safer than phenytoin sodium, phenobarbital and other old drugs with less side effects, and are ideal choices for patients with epilepsy.

Drug 2: epilepsy drug treatment advocates single drug treatment, let the doctor according to the patient's condition and examination results to suit the medicine, see the specific condition of patients with epilepsy suitable for what kind of drug, what kind of drug treatment effect of epilepsy patients can achieve the best.

Drug 3: starting from a small dose, if a single drug is ineffective, we can consider adding or changing another antiepileptic drug. We must not mix a variety of antiepileptic drugs together, which may lead to drug resistance of epilepsy and increase the occurrence of side effects. If it is really believed that one drug is ineffective or has excessive side effects on the patient, it should be replaced gradually when another drug is needed.

matters needing attention

Genetic factors make some children susceptible to convulsion. In this case, we should pay special attention to the importance of genetic counseling. We should try our best to know whether the parents, siblings and close relatives of the patients have seizures and their seizure characteristics. For some serious genetic diseases that can cause mental retardation and epilepsy, prenatal diagnosis or neonatal screening should be carried out to decide whether to terminate pregnancy or early pregnancy Treatment.