What is the cause of epilepsy

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I have an uncle who suffered from epilepsy. He is my father's colleague. His illness was caused by a car accident, resulting in brain and hand injuries. There are many causes of this disease, some of which can be avoided. Let's take a look at the causes of epilepsy.

What is the cause of epilepsy

One reason: trauma is the cause of epilepsy: intracranial hemorrhage, skull fracture, brain contusion and laceration can cause epilepsy, but the incidence rate is related to the degree and location of injury, and degeneration of nervous system: multiple sclerosis, diffuse sclerosis, brain atrophy, etc.

The second reason: brain damage after febrile convulsion is also the cause of epilepsy: because the symptoms of epilepsy are more obvious, when the onset of fuzzy consciousness, rhythmic convulsions of the body. Therefore, in the discovery of epilepsy, we should pay attention to timely treatment to avoid aggravation.

The third reason: perinatal brain injury is the cause of epileptic seizures: mainly birth injury, asphyxia, intracranial hemorrhage, hypoxia, ischemic encephalopathy, in which the most common cause of epilepsy is hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Intracranial infection is the cause of epilepsy: such as bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis, brain abscess, fungal meningitis, brain parasitic disease, post vaccination encephalitis, post infection encephalitis, etc.

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Help patients to understand and face the reality correctly, and give them understanding and sympathy. Epilepsy adhere to the effect of treatment is very good, according to the condition to determine a reasonable treatment, adhere to treatment.