What side effect does epilepsy patient take medicine to have?

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When my mother was more than 10 years old, her head was injured. Later, she became epileptic. She had been treated for a long time. Later, she slowly stopped taking medicine for many years. She didn't get sick for many years. Now, she has got it again. After the doctor's treatment, it is much better. What are the side effects of taking medicine for patients with epilepsy? I'd like to share my experience with you

What side effect does epilepsy patient take medicine to have?

Influence one: cause memory impairment, mental decline, personality changes, but also to increase the number of attacks. Some people think that minor attack, psychomotor attack and limited attack do little harm to human body, which is wrong. Although there is no lack of intelligence in patients with epilepsy, but from the whole epilepsy patients group, intelligence is still less than normal people. Some symptomatic epilepsy is often accompanied by mental retardation, and even some people with mental retardation.

Influence 2: some patients with a long history often have strange behaviors, such as few words, withdrawn personality, impulsive, angry, suspicious and so on.

Impact three: some seizures sometimes very sudden, easy to cause accidental injury, individual epilepsy can appear status epilepticus, life-threatening.

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It is suggested that family members should communicate with patients more, eliminate all kinds of boredom for patients in time, and keep patients in a good mood, which is conducive to the recovery of patients. After epileptic seizures, the consciousness of patients is often vague, and there will be purposeful actions or behaviors. In this case, while doing a good job of epilepsy nursing, we should avoid excessively limiting the activities of patients, which will lead to aggressive behaviors of patients. Epilepsy onset, due to sudden loss of consciousness, patients can not maintain the position before the onset, easy to suddenly fall to the ground. If there is someone nearby, we should try to do a good job of protection, do not let the patient's head suddenly hit the ground, to avoid falling or falling.