How to treat epilepsy

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I have been suffering from epilepsy for more than 30 years. I once had epilepsy due to brain injury caused by falling from height when I was 1 year old. 4 years old onset, attack every 3-4 days attack 1-2 times, each attack is short, only about 1 minute time, attack a little cramp in the hand, fuzzy mind, can't control! After the attack, the brain memory is poor, it takes several minutes to return to normal! After taking medicine, it's better now. How to treat epilepsy? Do you want to discuss it together? So let's share how to treat epilepsy.

How to treat epilepsy

Drug 1: at present, the most commonly used drugs include traditional antiepileptic drugs such as carbamazepine, sodium valproate, and new antiepileptic drugs such as lamotrigine, topiramate, and oxcarbamate. These antiepileptic drugs are safer than phenytoin sodium, phenobarbital and other old drugs with less side effects, and are ideal choices for patients with epilepsy.

Drug 2: epilepsy drug treatment advocates single drug treatment, let the doctor according to the patient's condition and examination results to suit the medicine, see the specific condition of patients with epilepsy suitable for what kind of drug, what kind of drug treatment effect of epilepsy patients can achieve the best.

Drug 3: starting from a small dose, if a single drug is ineffective, we can consider adding or changing another antiepileptic drug. We must not mix a variety of antiepileptic drugs together, which may lead to drug resistance of epilepsy and increase the occurrence of side effects. If it is really believed that one drug is ineffective or has excessive side effects on the patient, it should be replaced gradually when another drug is needed.

matters needing attention

Suffering from traumatic epilepsy, do not forget the psychological care of patients. Epilepsy is a chronic disease, physical pain, family discrimination, social prejudice, seriously affect the physical and mental health of patients, patients often feel nervous, anxiety, fear, emotional instability, always worried about the recurrence of the disease, we should often give care, help, love, for ideological concerns to give timely counseling, so that they have a happy mood, good mood.