Home treatment and prevention of epilepsy

  What to do if a family member or friend has a seizure: (1) Place the patient in bed or on the floor.  (2) Remove any sharp or dangerous objects from the vicinity of the patient.  (3) Keep the airway open and immediately untie tight clothing.  (4) Clear oral secretions. To prevent aspiration pneumonia, transfer the patient to the side so that the head is tilted to the side and secretions can flow easily.  (5) Hold the patient’s chin to prevent dislocation of the jaw and biting of the tongue; do not put anything in the patient’s mouth as swallowing is more dangerous than biting the tongue at this time.  (6) Stay calm and know that the patient is not feeling anything at this time.  Preventive measures: 1. Get enough sleep: Make sure you get enough sleep; too little sleep will increase the likelihood of seizures.  Do not drink a lot of water and salt: Eating too much water and salt in epileptic patients may trigger the disease because sodium ions can cause excessive neuronal discharge and induce seizures. Therefore, reduce the amount of food, do not drink a lot of liquid and too much salt at a time is the dietary principles of epileptic patients.  3, avoid stimulating food: avoid alcoholic beverages, animal proteins, caffeine, artificial sweeteners, nicotine, sugar, refined foods, avoid greasy and indigestible food and spicy and stimulating food.  4.Keep the intestines open. If the intestines are not peristaltic every day, you can drink some lemon juice (2 lemons plus 2.3 liters of water) before going to bed.  5, do not strain.  6, appropriate exercise: improve the blood circulation in the brain is very important, exercise is excellent for patients, but in moderation, and avoid too strenuous exercise, and should try to avoid emotional tension and stress.  7, recognition options: such as irritability or excitement, and immediately before the onset of some warning “aura”, may be a taste or smell, when this aura you can lie down in time to avoid falling. If you start to show depression, irritability or headache, etc.  8. Disable certain medications: such as quinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, gatifloxacin, etc.).