Can epilepsy be treated surgically in life
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What reason is sleeping recently? When you are sleeping, you are always twitching and shaking all over. Sometimes you roll your eyes, spit white foam in your mouth, and sometimes you even faint. It's called sleep epilepsy. You went to the hospital for treatment. Now it's getting better. Can you operate on epilepsy in your life? Do you want to discuss it together? So let's share in the life of epilepsy can surgical treatment.
Can epilepsy be treated surgically in life
Drug 1: phenytoin sodium: it is effective for generalized tonic clonic seizures and partial seizures, but it can aggravate absence and myoclonic seizures. Gastrointestinal absorption is slow, metabolic enzymes can be saturated, after saturation, increase a small dose is the most toxic dose, children are not easy to find toxic and side effects, so infants and children should not take, adults should be careful when dosage. Usually, adults can take it once a day and children can take it twice a day.
Drug 2: carbamazepine: it is the first choice for partial seizures. It is better than other antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of complex fractional seizures. It also has better effect on secondary generalized tonic clonic seizures, but it can aggravate absence and myoclonic seizures. Due to the self induction of liver enzymes, the clearance rate was low at the beginning of treatment, and gradually increased to the therapeutic dose one week later. After 3-4 weeks of treatment, the same effect can be maintained only by increasing the dose.
Drug 3: valproic acid: a broad-spectrum antiepileptic drug, is the first choice for generalized seizures, especially generalized tonic clonic seizures combined with typical absence seizures, also used for partial seizures. Gastrointestinal absorption is fast. Phenobarbital: it is often used as the first choice drug for children with epilepsy. It has a broad spectrum and quick onset. It has good curative effect on generalized tonic clonic seizures. It is also used for simple and complex partial seizures and has preventive effect on febrile convulsions. It can be used for acute brain damage with epilepsy or status epilepticus.
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? after taking the medicine for several months, the symptoms were well controlled, mistakenly believing that "my disease has been cured", so I don't need to take the medicine any more, and relapsed after stopping the medicine. We should know that epilepsy is the result of abnormal discharge of brain neurons. The abnormal discharge is caused by the physical and chemical factors of brain tissue damage and the formation of brain tissue "unhealthy", to restore the state of brain tissue recovery is to need drugs, nutrition and other slow effect, which takes time, not overnight.
