How to Cope with Epilepsy Disease Symptoms

What is epilepsy? What causes epilepsy? definition of epilepsy? and how to overcome the symptoms of epilepsy itself.

Epilepsy, derived from the Greek (Epilepsia), which means 'attack'. Please note, epilepsy is not contagious, not a hereditary disease, and not identical with the people who experience mental ketebelakangan. In fact, many people with epilepsy who suffer from epilepsy without a known cause.


Causes of Epilepsy

Our brain consists of millions of nerve cells (neurons), in charge of coordinating all activities of our body including feeling, seeing, thinking, moving the (muscle).

In people with epilepsy, sometimes these signals, do not move properly. This can be caused by various factors, among others; head trauma (head region had experienced an injury), brain tumors, and so forth.

Generally epilepsy may be caused by brain damage in the process of birth, head injury, stroke, brain tumors, alcohol. Sometimes epilepsy may also be due to genetic, hereditary disease but not epilepsy. But the exact cause remains unknown.

Diagnosis

Hippocrates was the first to successfully identify the symptoms of epilepsy as a problem in the brain, evil spirits, and so forth. A person may otherwise suffer from epilepsy if that person has at least had seizures that are not caused by alcohol and blood pressure is very low. The tools that are used normally are:
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Using a powerful magnet to earn a picture of the body / brain someone. Not using X-Ray. MRI is more sensitive dripada CT-Scan.
- EEG (Electro Encephalo Graphy) tool to check the brain waves.

How to overcome the symptoms of epilepsy

Up to now unknown drug that truly efficacious to cure epilepsy. The most important effort is to eliminate first the causes which can lead to epileptic attacks, such as the remnants of syphilis, hardened arteries, brain diseases, alcohol poisoning, the worms in the stomach and others. To attempt to reduce epileptic attacks occur and minimize the dangers to people with epilepsy are among others:

1. The patient should keep in daily life, body and thoughts do not be too heavy in the work so as not to become tired. Do not allowed the patient to drink alcohol, coffee or tea is dense and not too much to eat meat. The patient should have a lot to eat vegetables and get enough rest and try to defecate regularly.

2. The patients do not in allowed to perform acts that if something can be dangerous to himself like climbing trees or ladders, climbing the narrow bridge, standing alongside a river or pond or a fire, swimming, cycling, walking alone in a big way and was standing near the machine that was spinning and other forth. Because it all, endanger the patient if the seizure was a relapse.

3. If looking for signs that the patient will be stricken with apoplexy, the command that he swallows 1 or 2 teaspoons of salt and inhaling the smell of garlic that have been finely ground. And also feet and hands may also be tied tightly, may wear a cloth or a large rope. In that way, usually epileptic attack can be avoided.

4. If the patient has fallen unconscious, let laid back and his clothes slightly loosened, if necessary on the sidelines of the upper and lower teeth to enter a clean cloth that has been folded or spoon, to avoid being bitten tongue and allow it until he regained consciousness.