Epilepsy has been known for a long time, in Russia such patientsunderstood and regretted. And nowadays they are treated on a par with suffering from mental illness. In fact, epilepsy cannot be considered a true mental illness, since the patient does not lose contact with reality, but at certain moments seizures occur during which the person cannot control himself. However, for those around these are not dangerous. Although it turned out to be near it may well scare or upset. So what is epilepsy?
Its symptoms manifest in one way -seizures. But they can be very different from different people. A common cause for all is a change in the electrical activity of brain cells. An uncontrolled transmission of the electrical impulse from the cortex begins, and this causes epilepsy.
Symptoms-seizures always have a beginning, middle and end. The onset of the attack the patient remembers clearly, the rest can be forgotten.
What are the first signs of epilepsy?
Before an attack usually occurs a speciala condition called aura. According to it, the patient determines that there will soon be a seizure. Sometimes it is absent, sometimes after it the attack does not occur, therefore the aura is an unreliable symptom. However, there are no other, better ways, such is epilepsy. Symptoms, that is, aura, include the following symptoms.
First, the symptom deja vu. This means that something objectively new seems vaguely familiar. Patients with epilepsy know about this feature of perception, which foreshadows a seizure.
Secondly, the symptom jamais vu. In this case, on the contrary, the familiar seems unfamiliar, as if visible for the first time.
Third, changes in perception: strange smells, tastes and sensations. The picture received from the eyes becomes fuzzy, sometimes it disappears altogether.
Fourth, a strong emotional reaction - from panic to happiness, which is accompanied by an acceleration of the thinking process.
Fifth, there may be a feeling of stupor, headache, nausea and dizziness.
What are the signs that determine that a person has epilepsy?
Symptoms are very similar, although everyone haspermanent features of the attack, which are repeated several times. Among them may be temporary deafness, the feeling that a person was affected by a discharge of current, loss of consciousness (maybe for a moment or for a few minutes), an intense feeling of dizziness, sometimes patients even see how they leave the body, although this is a rare symptom. In general, the attack is accompanied by a sense of panic.
Physically, the attack manifests as salivation,convulsive movements of the arms and legs, rolling his eyes, incontinence, trembling, grinding his teeth, biting his lips and tongue, trembling of the body and his twitching. Pulse accelerates and breathing becomes difficult.
After a seizure, the person is given a letter, andmemory is also impaired. Emotionally - there is a feeling of shame and confusion, sadness is possible, reaching the scale of depression. Man is afraid of repetition.
Characterized by headache and a state of exhaustion, a person wants to drink and sleep. If there was no help during the seizure, injuries are possible - bruises and bitten lips and tongue.
Anyone who can answer the question "How to cureepilepsy? ”will certainly receive the Nobel Prize. So far there is no effective means, but supportive therapy is very, very effective. In total, there are about a dozen epileptic drugs on the drug market. Which ones to prefer - the doctor will tell.
Epilepsy is just a different image.of life. Of course, it makes life difficult for the sick, but you need to know that the likelihood of seizures decreases with age. And you can not laugh at the sick - because epilepsy can begin at any age in any person.
