Can epilepsy be cured?

  Most epilepsies can be cured. Epilepsy is caused by abnormal discharges in brain tissue. By suppressing this abnormal discharge with medication for 2-3 years, the abnormal discharge is able to disappear in most patients. A small percentage of patients can be cured by surgical removal of the epileptic focus. Other patients require lifelong medication to reduce seizures.  In the vast majority of cases of epilepsy, proper medication can effectively suppress the abnormal discharges in the brain, resulting in a significant reduction or disappearance of seizures. The treatment process takes about several years, and the prolonged action of the medication can result in a gradual reduction or disappearance of the abnormal discharges in the brain. After 2-3 years of seizure-free treatment, the dosage of medication can be gradually reduced until it is discontinued. Patients who do not do well with medication can be cured with surgery to remove the lesion causing the seizures. Only a small percentage of patients require lifelong medication to reduce seizures. In the cranium is an abnormal discharge process, and has formed an abnormal form of brain lesion, belong to the organic changes, this time is mainly through drugs or even surgical treatment, no matter what kind of treatment, for the organic brain lesion is already produced, so for this aspect, can only say that through the corresponding control means, to reduce the seizure situation, and to the end In addition, if the surgical treatment is performed, this also reduces the number of bad seizure foci, but it is impossible to eliminate and repair them at the root. The procedure is also effective, but every surgery may be unexpected and may induce the formation of new epileptic lesions.  This is why it is important to actively control the further development and occurrence of epilepsy, and not to remove the root cause of epilepsy. For the vast majority of patients with epilepsy, simply controlling the seizures to reduce them, or even to the end of not having them, is a very good outcome.  Epilepsy is a complex disease with a variety of seizure forms and types of epilepsy. Depending on the type of epilepsy and the form of seizures, there are different medication regimens. Reasonable drug therapy can effectively control seizures in about 70% of patients. A small percentage of drug-refractory epilepsy can be completely cured with surgical treatment. Therefore, once you have epilepsy, you must first go to the neurology department of a regular hospital for systematic treatment, and patients with poor results can also consider surgical treatment.