Epilepsy is a heavily treatable disease that is associated with a disruption in the work of neurons in the brain. It manifests itself in sudden convulsive attacks of a different nature - with complete or partial loss of consciousness, as well as other characteristics that are characteristic of the body in cases of sharp spasms.
Today, many people suffer from epilepsy, and this has put a difficult task for doctors in the form of a 100% cure for the disease. Many developments are being carried out in this area, but still the most effective are the classical methods of treatment - drug mixtures, monotherapy (one medicine is used), and also surgical intervention.
Is it possible to cure epilepsy forever?
From epilepsy can be cured - if within 3 years after the last attack there were no relapses, it means that the person is healthy and he is deleted from the list of records.
But to achieve a complete cure is difficult - it can manage about 70% of patients, but the remaining 30% of patients are forced to fight with epilepsy for life.
How to get rid of epilepsy?
The probability of cure with the use of medications and the surgical method are approximately equal. Epilepsy refers to those diseases that involve a variational approach, in which treatment depends on many factors - the focal area, the nature of the seizures, and also the hereditary predisposition. Also of great importance is whether epilepsy is caused by another disease, or exists independently.
Monotherapy
In the first place most often use monotherapy. The doctor selects a medication individually (this depends on the location of the source of epilepsy, the frequency of seizures, the nature of seizures, the condition of the central nervous system and other factors), after which the patient takes an anticonvulsant every day for several years.
Mixtures
If the seizures differ in the variety of symptoms, and the general condition of the patient needs to be adjusted, then mixtures of various drugs are used, the dosage and combination of which is strictly calculated and has long been used in practice - a mixture of Vorobyov or Sereisky. An auxiliary
Operations with epilepsy
The operation on the vagus nerve with epilepsy is an extreme method - a generator is implanted under the skin, which stimulates by means of electrical impulses the vagus nerve, which sends impulses from the body to the brain. However, such a method is not as radical as an operation in which a part of the brain is removed.
Operation in the treatment of epilepsy can completely stop attacks, but it is not always possible - when the damage from the operation is much worse than the attacks themselves.