Treatment of primary epilepsy

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Half a month ago, my child suffered from convulsions, looking forward, calling should not answer and other symptoms due to vomiting. The local hospital said it was epilepsy, and the hospital could arrange hospitalization. Fortunately, the treatment was very fast, and I recovered almost. Let me talk about the treatment of primary epilepsy.

Treatment of primary epilepsy

Treatment 1: advocate monotherapy: try to use a single antiepileptic drugs, most cases of monotherapy satisfaction, dosage from small to large, to achieve effective treatment dose, can reduce adverse reactions. The treatment dose of the same type of attack or the same drug varies from individual to individual. The treatment dose should be adjusted from small dose, combined with clinical effect and individualized fine adjustment. In addition, according to the effect of the drug, reasonable arrangement of medication times.

Treatment 2: pay attention to drug interaction: a considerable number of epilepsy patients have no effect on single drug treatment, in this case, it is necessary to combine two or more drugs to treat epilepsy. In combination therapy, we should pay attention to the interaction between drugs. It is very important to understand the interaction between drugs for guiding the treatment of epilepsy and adjusting the dosage of drugs.

Treatment 3: dressing change should be gradually excessive: if patients with epilepsy do not achieve the desired effect after receiving drug treatment for a period of time, they can communicate with doctors, change dressing or change a treatment method. When changing dressing, the alternation of the two drugs needs a certain transition period, and then gradually stop using the original drugs to avoid epilepsy recurrence or status epilepticus.

matters needing attention

It mainly refers to avoid the inducing factors of epilepsy and comprehensive treatment for children with epilepsy, in order to control the seizure of epilepsy. Statistical data show that the recurrence rate of patients after the first seizure is 27% - 82%. It seems that most patients will relapse after a single seizure. Therefore, it is particularly important to prevent the recurrence of epileptic symptoms.