What is Epilepsy - The Recurrent Dilemma

                                 WHAT IS EPILEPSY - THE RECURRENT DILEMMA

Epilepsy is a disease in which a person suffers from frequent seizures. You! takes a look...

Imagine you are walking down the road with a friend of yours. The weather couldn't be more pleasant. You are having a nice, interesting conversation with him/her. Suddenly, your friend stops, dries out loud or makes a weird sound, stiffens for some seconds, and then has rhythmic movements of the arms and legs.

At first, you think it's funny, but soon realise by the terrified look on your friends face, that that it is anything but funny. And then, he collapses. You get real worried now, and call for an ambulance. Thankfully, your friend returns to consciousness after a while, but he still appears confused. It takes him a while to understand what's going around and he seems really tired.

You are still wondering what really happened. NO, he is NOT possessed. He just suffered from a seizure. If he has had such episodes before, then he is suffering from a condition called epilepsy.

WHAT IS EPILEPSY?...

Epilepsy is a disease in which a person suffers from recurrent seizures. To understand it, one needs to know what a seizure is. It is simply a "misfire" of signals in the brain. The human brain is a complex machine, which works through different signals for different functions.

For example, to move your hand, different signals pass from your brain to your hand, and so the movement occurs.

These signals are well coordinated and controlled by various mechanisms within the brain. Anything that disturbs this normal pattern of activity - from illness to brain damage to abnormal brain development - can lead to seizures, and when these occur frequently, the condition is called EPILEPSY...

However, just because a person suffers from a seizure doesn't necessarily mean he has epilepsy. Seizures alone can be triggered by other conditions, which may be life threatening, such as high temperature, or dehydration. It is only when a person suffers from repeated seizures for no obvious reason, he is considered epileptic.

TYPES OF EPILEPSY...

Many people develop epilepsy as children or teens. Others develop it later in life. For some, the seizures eventually become less frequent or disappear altogether.

There are many types of seizures in epilepsy. These types depend on the part of brain affected. These range from "simple seizure" in which a person doesn't lose consciousness, but may have abnormal movements psychic problems, to 'complex seizures'. In which a person loses consciousness as well. A generalised seizure involves the whole brain in general.

The reasons why epilepsy begins are different for people of different ages. The cause is unknown for almost half of the cases of epilepsy. Children may be born with a defect in the structure of their brain, or they may suffer a head injury of infection that causes their epilepsy.

Severe head injury is the most common cause in young adults. Often seizures do not begin immediately after a person has an injury to the brain. Instead, a seizure may happen many months later.

In middle age, strokes, tumours, and injuries are more frequent. In people over sixty five: stroke is the main cause, followed by degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. Alcoholism is also thought to play a part in this disease, and so does lack of sleep.

TREATMENT...

The treatment of this disease is complicated. The key to finding an effective treatment is an accurate diagnosis of the type of epilepsy a person has. The current mode of treatments includes medication, surgery, nerve stimulation and diet.

Most seizures can be controlled by a single drug therapy. The drugs can also be used in combination for more serious type of seizures.

Surgery usually isn't considered until the patient has tried two or three different medications for a period of time whit out success, and the seizures warrant consideration for surgery.

Nerve stimulation, is a procedure done to make eating and speech easy.

In Diet control, FASTING is considered a treatment, because when one is fasting, certain alternate food substances are used, which are actually good for epileptic patients.

The real objective of treating epilepsy is to stop seizures or control them and to help people with seizures to lead a full and unrestricted life according to their own wishes.

Many people may have the possibility of achieving better seizure control right now, but haven't gotten the help they need. This is mainly because of the lack of awareness among people. In this regard there should be awareness campaigns and effective care should also be provided to  the patients with this disease.

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