Some epilepsies are age-related benign epilepsies, which can improve on their own after a certain age and no longer have seizures; about 1/3 of epileptic patients can be cured with regular medication; some symptomatic epilepsies can be cured by removing the cause of the disease; and some other epilepsies can not be cured.
1. Benign epilepsy: for example, benign childhood epilepsy with central-temporal spikes, onset of disease at 3-13 years old, with peak incidence at 9-10 years old; most patients recover spontaneously during adolescence.
2. Symptomatic epilepsy: some symptomatic epilepsies, such as those caused by brain tumors, can be cured after resection of the tumor lesions; some patients can be treated with regular medication for a period of time, and then the medication can be gradually reduced and discontinued, so as to achieve the effect of radical cure.
3. Others: some epilepsy cannot be cured, mainly in patients with cryptogenic epilepsy, who need long-term oral drug treatment. For patients with poor drug treatment, surgical treatment is also available, such as lesion resection, hemispherectomy, corpus callosotomy, and so on.
Most epilepsy can be effectively improved through systematic treatment, and it is recommended that epilepsy patients, timely medical treatment, standardized treatment under the guidance of physicians.