Every twentieth man experienced epileptic seizures in childhood or in adolescence. Most succeed «grow» Dangerous state, however, the number of adult patients suffering from chronic seizures is also large enough.
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What are the seizures?
Epilepsy – a disease that can manifest almost imperceptibly. Many people do not even suspect for a long time that they are sick.
Epilepsy suffered classics of literature and commander. Everyone knows that this disease is manifested by heavy convulsive seizures, but not everyone knows
then it has a lot of forms. Convulsive seizures – It is always dramatic, but there are attacks that on the household may not be visible.
Sometimes seizures may occur in such quantities that they cannot account for the day during the day. For example, fleeting off consciousness. Man spoke – silent – immediately came to myself. Sometimes the seizure lasts a split second, a second, two, three... You will not even understand what happened to him because he continues to talk further about the same thing that he said. There are sensory seizures when the patient feels something: suddenly there is a smell, an auditory, visual perception changes.
Sometimes the attack flows in the form of reinforced heartbeat – Without any reason, the pulse and t.D. Therefore, very often such patients fall out of the field of view of a specialist, have long been treated with other doctors. This leads to the fact that sooner or later they may have all the well-known convulsive types of attacks. The disease, starting with small symptoms, is becoming new, complicated.
In most cases, attacks arise spontaneously, but there are still so-called reflex forms of epilepsy, which are associated with certain sensory stimuli: taste, olfactory, auditory, visual, tactile. That is, the seizure is caused by a specific external factor. The most common epilepsy among reflex forms – Photosensitive. Such a patient should not look at intermittent flashing light, to be on disco with a colorwoman, he should refuse the TV shows with a quick flashing frame and computer games.
Acute epileptic reaction
Acute epileptic reaction – This is not a disease, but the reaction of the body in the form of an epileptic seizure on the impact of any adverse factor, it may be a heat blow, acute pain, burn, and t.NS. Fit organism signals how bad it is currently at the moment.
According to the doctor, to significantly help a person during an epileptic attack, which lasts a maximum of two minutes, will not work: whatever you do, this will not play a special role. You can only try to protect the patient from injuries. Epilepsy refers to the discharge of chronic (actually incurable) diseases of the central nervous system, despite this, in recent years there has been significant progress in its treatment.
On the drug market
Our pharmaceutical market has become more voluminous, over the past 2-3 decades, new drugs have been synthesized, which allow you to change the biochemistry of the brain, restore the sensitivity of the receptors to one or another kinds of amino acids. Therapy is appointed for a long time, we can talk about several years, decades, in some cases – About lifelong treatment.
Diagnostics
Today it is possible to qualitatively examined – With the help of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, other visualizing methods of studying the brain.
