Epilepsy is a condition when post convulsive attacks are repeated. However, the diagnosis of epilepsy is set up only in case if the person have had at least two attacks and if no any other illness causing attacks is proved. Epilepsy is not infectious and is not mental disease.
How often it occurs?
This illness is observed approximately at 7 of 1000 children in the age of under 16 years; and at 1 from 200 of adults.
When it occurs?
Attacks often occurs at newborns and children with diseases of a heat. It does not mean, that at the child will develop in the subsequent epilepsy.
Epilepsy can develop at any person at any age, but begins at children and teenagers is more often: at 75 % of people with the epilepsy the diagnosis is put in the age under 20 years. At more recent age the reason of occurrence of epilepsy can become craniocereberal traumas, insults, tumors of a brain. The number of such cases of epilepsy sharply increases among people older 60 years.
What are the reasons of occurrence?
There is no unified reason of occurrence of epilepsia. The majority of forms of epilepsy is not inherited, but can occur a little bit more often in some families. About 40 % of patients with epilepsy have close relatives with this disease. There is a set of various types of post convulsive attacks with a various degree of weight. The attack which begins from one certain site of a brain, refers to fractional or focal. If the attack covers at once all brain from the beginning it is generalized. Some attacks can begin from one site, and then extend on all brain and become generalized. Organic infringements of a structure of a brain (a tumor, scars from traumas, an insult) detect at people with fractional by attacks is more often. In 70 % of cases the reason of epilepsy is unknown.
The most popular reasons of occurrence are:
- A craniocereberal trauma
- An insult
- Tumors of a brain
- Lack of oxygen and blood supply at a birth
- Infringements of a structure of a brain
- A meningitis, virus and parasitic diseases, an abscess of a brain
- Hereditary factors
What are necessary inspections?
To set the correct diagnosis, the doctor in details finds out all symptoms of an attack, sequence of their development, frequency and their stereotype. As illnesses of the patient and its relatives for revealing disease which can cause development of an attack are studied all.
The further inspection depends on of this type attack, age of the patient, results of the analysis of its case record and clinical survey. Often statement of the diagnosis is helped by the description of an attack the witness of its progress (the person who has transferred an attack, as a rule, of it does not remember).
In addition to clinical survey it is necessarily to check the electroencephalography. This painless procedure represents record of bio electric activity of a brain. Carrying out of a resonant tomography or a computer tomography.
What are consequences?
People with epilepsy often collide that their attacks strongly frighten associates. Children cannot participate in some sports and other kinds of activity, schoolmates can avoid them. Despite of correct selection anti epileptic therapies occurrence of hyperactive behavior and difficulties in training is possible.
Restriction of some kinds of activity, for example, driving of the car, can lower mood, cause alarm. Treatment of people with heavy uncontrollable forms of epilepsy should include discussion of social, emotional and personal changes which can accompany with disease.
How it is treated?
Modern treatment completely prevents progress of attacks, and patients with the epilepsy can conduct a normal way of life. Objective of treatment is full elimination of attacks with the minimal by-effects.
Now the most widespread way of prevention of development of attacks is daily reception antiepileptic preparations there is a wide range of them. Some of them operate only at the certain types of epilepsy. By-effects in case of their occurrence absolutely differently proceed at various patients. In this connection very important precisely to follow instructions of the attending physician. With the epilepsy medical consultation up to and during pregnancy is necessary for women. At pregnancy it is not necessary to interrupt sharply reception anti epileptic medicines at all.
If medicinal treatment does not allow to supervise attacks, probably to remove the damaged site of a brain surgical by. To define, whether it is necessary to be treated in a similar way, the inspection including record of an attack with use of video and electroencephalography of the equipment is necessary highly specially.
How often it occurs?
This illness is observed approximately at 7 of 1000 children in the age of under 16 years; and at 1 from 200 of adults.
When it occurs?
Attacks often occurs at newborns and children with diseases of a heat. It does not mean, that at the child will develop in the subsequent epilepsy.
Epilepsy can develop at any person at any age, but begins at children and teenagers is more often: at 75 % of people with the epilepsy the diagnosis is put in the age under 20 years. At more recent age the reason of occurrence of epilepsy can become craniocereberal traumas, insults, tumors of a brain. The number of such cases of epilepsy sharply increases among people older 60 years.
What are the reasons of occurrence?
There is no unified reason of occurrence of epilepsia. The majority of forms of epilepsy is not inherited, but can occur a little bit more often in some families. About 40 % of patients with epilepsy have close relatives with this disease. There is a set of various types of post convulsive attacks with a various degree of weight. The attack which begins from one certain site of a brain, refers to fractional or focal. If the attack covers at once all brain from the beginning it is generalized. Some attacks can begin from one site, and then extend on all brain and become generalized. Organic infringements of a structure of a brain (a tumor, scars from traumas, an insult) detect at people with fractional by attacks is more often. In 70 % of cases the reason of epilepsy is unknown.
The most popular reasons of occurrence are:
- A craniocereberal trauma
- An insult
- Tumors of a brain
- Lack of oxygen and blood supply at a birth
- Infringements of a structure of a brain
- A meningitis, virus and parasitic diseases, an abscess of a brain
- Hereditary factors
What are necessary inspections?
To set the correct diagnosis, the doctor in details finds out all symptoms of an attack, sequence of their development, frequency and their stereotype. As illnesses of the patient and its relatives for revealing disease which can cause development of an attack are studied all.
The further inspection depends on of this type attack, age of the patient, results of the analysis of its case record and clinical survey. Often statement of the diagnosis is helped by the description of an attack the witness of its progress (the person who has transferred an attack, as a rule, of it does not remember).
In addition to clinical survey it is necessarily to check the electroencephalography. This painless procedure represents record of bio electric activity of a brain. Carrying out of a resonant tomography or a computer tomography.
What are consequences?
People with epilepsy often collide that their attacks strongly frighten associates. Children cannot participate in some sports and other kinds of activity, schoolmates can avoid them. Despite of correct selection anti epileptic therapies occurrence of hyperactive behavior and difficulties in training is possible.
Restriction of some kinds of activity, for example, driving of the car, can lower mood, cause alarm. Treatment of people with heavy uncontrollable forms of epilepsy should include discussion of social, emotional and personal changes which can accompany with disease.
How it is treated?
Modern treatment completely prevents progress of attacks, and patients with the epilepsy can conduct a normal way of life. Objective of treatment is full elimination of attacks with the minimal by-effects.
Now the most widespread way of prevention of development of attacks is daily reception antiepileptic preparations there is a wide range of them. Some of them operate only at the certain types of epilepsy. By-effects in case of their occurrence absolutely differently proceed at various patients. In this connection very important precisely to follow instructions of the attending physician. With the epilepsy medical consultation up to and during pregnancy is necessary for women. At pregnancy it is not necessary to interrupt sharply reception anti epileptic medicines at all.
If medicinal treatment does not allow to supervise attacks, probably to remove the damaged site of a brain surgical by. To define, whether it is necessary to be treated in a similar way, the inspection including record of an attack with use of video and electroencephalography of the equipment is necessary highly specially.
