Belly rubbing generally can not play a role in the treatment of epilepsy, epilepsy needs to be treated with antiepileptic drugs, surgery and other treatments under the guidance of a doctor.
Belly rubbing is also known as massaging the abdomen, which is conducive to promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis and metabolism, but it is generally ineffective for the treatment of epilepsy.
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease clinically characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures, which are mainly caused by excessive discharges of neurons in the brain and are episodic, transient, repetitive and stereotyped.
For patients diagnosed with epilepsy, antiepileptic drugs can be correctly selected under the guidance of a doctor to control seizures and minimize the number of seizures, and to improve the patient’s quality of life. Commonly used drugs include traditional antiepileptic drugs, such as phenytoin sodium and carbamazepine; and newer antiepileptic drugs, such as topiramate, lamotrigine and gabapentin.
For patients who are ineffective in conservative drug treatment and have repeated seizures, they can be treated by surgery, including anterior temporal lobectomy, hippocampal resection, epileptic foci resection, and so on.
Specific treatment methods as well as therapeutic drugs need to be rationally selected under the guidance of professional doctors and according to the patient’s condition and symptoms.