Should epilepsy take medicine all the time
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Epilepsy is a very frequent chronic disease nowadays. We all know that epilepsy will cause great harm to the health of patients. The characteristics of seizures anytime and anywhere also bring great inconvenience to the life of patients. Moreover, this disease is very difficult to cure. Let's take a look at whether epilepsy must be treated for life?
Should epilepsy take medicine all the time
Epilepsy is a kind of chronic disease with great harm. In the process of treatment, it needs long-term medication. Many patients begin to worry because of long-term treatment, and they need lifelong medication when they get epilepsy. This is an incorrect understanding. In fact, very few people take drugs all their lives. After antiepileptic drug treatment, most patients may gradually reduce the drug and stop the drug after a few years to achieve the purpose of cure.
50% ～ 70% of children with epilepsy have a good prognosis. They are sensitive to antiepileptic drugs and their seizures are easy to control. Once they are relieved, they can be administered successfully. Epilepsy with uncertain prognosis accounts for 10% - 20%. Antiepileptic drugs can control the seizure, but it will recur after withdrawal, so it needs lifelong medication. In addition, about 20% of children with epilepsy have poor prognosis. Most of these patients have basic brain diseases. Antiepileptic drugs can only reduce seizures. Even if multiple drugs are combined, seizures still exist. The latter two cases are called intractable epilepsy, which can be improved or even cured by surgical treatment.
The above is to suffer from epilepsy is not to make a lifelong medication related introduction, epilepsy is a very serious disease, we must pay attention to, once found with symptoms of epilepsy, must be sent to the hospital for treatment, so as not to delay the best period of treatment.
matters needing attention
Epilepsy through the correct treatment, the majority of patients with epilepsy can be cured, after the recovery is good. There are many types of epilepsy, the treatment of epilepsy is still the first choice of drug treatment, drug treatment of most patients can achieve the ideal effect. A small part of suitable for surgical treatment, such as brain tumor, cerebral hemorrhage and other organic lesions. But the operation treatment also has the possibility of recurrence, postoperative still need to insist on taking drug treatment. It is suggested that traditional Chinese medicine combined with western medicine has good curative effect. Traditional Chinese medicine has the functions of eliminating phlegm and wind, inducing resuscitation and calming epilepsy, activating blood circulation and removing stasis, tonifying heart and kidney, calming liver and purging fire. It can gradually reduce western medicine during taking traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has no dependence and has little side effects. It can also resist the side effects of Western medicine and regulate the physical condition after taking western medicine for a long time, Regulate the function of viscera, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan, so as to achieve the purpose of cure
