Is congenital epilepsy contagious

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When my mother was born, she suffered from congenital epilepsy. When she was pregnant with me, her mother wanted to know, can congenital epilepsy be contagious? So she consulted the doctor several times. Here is her consultation and sharing:

Is congenital epilepsy contagious

Is congenital epilepsy contagious? First, epilepsy is mainly induced in infancy, mainly in the infant about a week due to brain damage. At present, epilepsy in China is caused by multiple factors, such as genetic factors, birth injury, food poisoning and so on.

Is congenital epilepsy contagious? Second, for patients with epilepsy, as long as we carefully treat and pay attention to food therapy, we will stabilize the patient's condition, so that they can live a normal life. Epilepsy belongs to a nervous system disease, although there is a certain genetic, but suffering from epilepsy will not be infectious.

Can congenital epilepsy be transmitted? Third, studies have shown that epilepsy is not contagious. And as long as positive preventive measures are taken, most of epilepsy can be prevented. For epilepsy caused by genetic diseases, prenatal diagnosis should be carried out. It is found that the fetus suffering from a certain genetic disease and accompanied with epilepsy can be induced abortion, which can reduce the occurrence of this kind of epilepsy. Epilepsy is not an incurable disease, through scientific and effective treatment, patients can gradually recover and return to normal life.

matters needing attention

Epilepsy is hereditary. Because epilepsy patients need to take medicine for a long time, phenobarbital and phenytoin sodium are commonly used. They all have certain side effects. For example, if pregnant women use it for a long time, it may cause fetal cleft lip, cleft palate, congenital heart disease, microcephaly and other congenital diseases. Therefore, if a woman suffering from epilepsy wants to have a healthy child, she must choose to be pregnant in a relatively stable period or under the guidance of a doctor, use a reasonable dose of drugs with minimal side effects for treatment, and formulate the best scheme to control seizures, so as to prevent the birth of abnormal fetus as far as possible. Although epilepsy is not contagious, if you do not pay attention to medication during pregnancy, it will cause genetic, so we should pay special attention to it.