Patient's question:
Muscle cramp, foaming at the mouth, unconscious for over ten minutes. Onset in 1979, cause unknown.Doctor's answer:
Analysis of the condition: Epilepsy (commonly known as "fainting wind") has an incidence rate of 0.5% in China and is very common in clinical practice. Its main clinical manifestations include: sudden onset with falling to the ground, loss of consciousness, generalized convulsions, foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling upward, and each episode lasting 1-3 minutes. The harm of epilepsy to a person mainly includes the following points:(1) Damage to brain function: Each episode of epilepsy causes damage to brain cells. Long-term repeated episodes of epilepsy can lead to a decline in intelligence in patients, and eventually, they may gradually lose their ability to work or even their ability to live.
(2) Accidental injuries: Because epilepsy cannot be controlled by time, place, or environment and causes sudden onset with falling to the ground, it is prone to injuries such as falls, burns, drowning, and traffic accidents.
(3) Psychological trauma: Due to frequent episodes of epilepsy, patients' employment, marriage, and family life are all affected, leading to more repressed psychological activity and significant impact on their physical and mental health.
Recommendations: Western medicine currently has the following treatment methods for epilepsy:
1. X-ray knife and gamma knife treatment for epilepsy. Since the discharge focus of epilepsy cannot be identified, the effect is not ideal.
2. Surgical treatment. The key to surgical treatment is to locate the focus of epilepsy. However, currently, cranial CT, magnetic resonance imaging, and electroencephalogram examinations are all difficult to identify the focus of epilepsy, making the accuracy of surgical localization very challenging and affecting the surgical outcome.