Can epileptic symptom inherit?

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There are many causes of epilepsy, different etiological manifestations of the type is not the same. Among them, primary epilepsy will be inherited to future generations, so how to avoid giving birth to epilepsy baby? Epilepsy patients should avoid marriage with people with family history of epilepsy, unmarried couples should do EEG examination before marriage, and people with family history of epilepsy on both sides should avoid marriage. Can epileptic symptom inherit? Let's talk about it

Can epileptic symptom inherit?

Epilepsy can be seen in all ages. The incidence rate of epilepsy in children is higher than that in adults. The incidence rate of epilepsy decreases with age. After entering the old age (after 65 years old), the incidence rate of epilepsy is also increasing due to the increase of cerebrovascular disease, senile dementia and neurodegenerative diseases.

Generalized tonic clonic seizures: characterized by sudden loss of consciousness and generalized tonic and convulsions, the typical seizure process can be divided into tonic stage, clonic stage and late seizure stage. The duration of an attack is generally less than 5 minutes, often accompanied by tongue bite, urinary incontinence, and easy to cause asphyxia and other injuries. Tonic clonic seizures can be seen in any type of epilepsy and epilepsy syndrome.

Absence attack: the typical manifestation of absence is sudden occurrence, action stop, gaze, call it should not, may have blink, but basically without or accompanied by mild motor symptoms, the end is also sudden. Usually lasts 5-20 seconds, rarely more than 1 minute. It is mainly seen in children with absence epilepsy.

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After regular antiepileptic drug treatment, there are still about 20% - 30% of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Surgical treatment of epilepsy provides a new treatment for this part of patients. It is estimated that about 50% of drug refractory epilepsy patients can be controlled or cured by surgery, which improves the prognosis of refractory epilepsy to a certain extent.