How long can epilepsy live

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I suddenly fell to the ground, convulsed, and froth at the mouth. Then I learned that I was suffering from epilepsy. I can't believe it. I'm also worried about my life. I'm worried that my life will be threatened by the disease and I won't live long. Now let me tell you how long epilepsy can live.

How long can epilepsy live

First: epilepsy is caused by a variety of reasons leading to abnormal discharge of neurons in the brain, which affects the normal physiological function of nearby neurons. It is a nervous system disease with sudden unconsciousness, convulsion, foaming at the mouth or accompanied by fever, such as ordinary people after waking up.

Second: epilepsy itself rarely causes death, and accidental damage caused by seizures is not uncommon. Epilepsy can affect the life span of patients. As long as it is due to an unsupervised seizure and died of an accident. Such as secretions leading to asphyxia, traffic accidents, drowning, etc.

Third: in the group, epilepsy does not affect the length of life. Only when epilepsy attacks, the persecution of patients is large, and when epilepsy does not attack, the persecution is relatively small. The long course of treatment had high recurrence rate, organic brain lesions, abnormal EEG before drug withdrawal, especially severe abnormalities.

matters needing attention

In fact, epilepsy will not affect the lives of patients, as long as we can control the attack of the disease, basically will not pose a threat to life, the most important thing is to go to the regular epilepsy hospital for examination and treatment, do not blindly believe in small ads and delay the treatment of the disease.