MANAGEMENT OF EPILEPSY

Management of epilepsy



Management of epilepsy

Introduction

The great Roman emperor Julius Caesar, the first Russian Emperor Peter I, to bring Russia on a world level, a famous mathematician who founded the Nobel prize in all fields of science except mathematics, Alfred Nobel, the Russian writer who wrote the famous novel "Crime and Punishment, The Idiot "" Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, the French emperor had seized half of Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte, the great Dutch artist, paintings are exhibited in the Louvre and to this day, Vincent Van Gogh and many other brilliant person sick with epilepsy .Epilepsy is sometimes called "God's markings," believe that people suffering from epilepsy, noted above. The nature of the emergence of this disease has not yet been established, there are several assumptions in medicine, but exact data are unavailable. Today, the magazine MirSovetov consider what epilepsy is, how it is treated and how to behave when your side was a person suffering from this disease (Modica PA, 1990,, 433).

What is epilepsy? How is epilepsy

Discussion

Epilepsy - a disease that is manifested by sudden convulsions, disorders of consciousness, and sometimes personality changes (Modica PA, 1990,, 433).

Medicine found that epilepsy - a hereditary disease, it can be transmitted through the mother, but more often transmitted through the male line, can not be transferred or appear in a generation. There is a probability of occurrence of epilepsy in children conceived by parents in a drunken state, or syphilis (Modica PA, 1990,, 433).

Epilepsy can be "acquired" disease as a result of strong fear, head injuries, diseases of the mother during pregnancy, due to the formation of brain tumors, vascular malformations of the brain, birth trauma, infections of the nervous system, poisoning, neurosurgical operations.

Signs of Epilepsy

A well-known symptom of epilepsy - a great convulsive seizure: the patient suddenly loses consciousness, falls, it just breaks spasms, his mouth foams, after 2-5 minutes of a seizure ends, the patient falls into a deep sleep, and waking up often, he remembers. Crafted four-stage course of epilepsy: the stage of the precursors, auras, seizures and postictal states (Proposal for revised clinical and electroencefalographic classification of epileptic seizures, 1981,, 489).

Stage precursors of the patient may feel a few minutes, hours, days before the attack, manifested in the form of headaches, fatigue, increased irritability, worsening of mood. In some cases, the stage of the precursors may not be (Proposal for revised clinical and electroencefalographic classification of epileptic seizures, 1981,, 489).

Stage aura precedes convulsions, occurs suddenly, lasts a split second. Fraction of a second patient is conscious, feeling, experiencing some emotions of the situation. External manifestation of this phase: the patient feels cold, pain, numbness of certain parts of the body, heart palpitations, a sense of odor, taste some food, he sees a bright shimmer (Proposal for revised clinical and electroencefalographic classification of epileptic seizures, 1981,, 489).

After stage aura seizures occur. Often, before the convulsions the patient cried out something and falls where caught convulsive seizure. Next, the patient's body cramp, face distorted, turning blue, his ...