Recurrent hallucinations are rooted in epilepsy

  In June 2010, Ms. Zhang lost her confidence in treatment and came to the Department of Neurology of our hospital, where Dr. Dong Bineng, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Neurology, with his years of experience, helped her to find the root of the disease. After several months of systematic and standardized treatment, Ms. Zhang has completely resumed her normal life and her hallucinations have disappeared.  According to Ms. Zhang’s family, Ms. Zhang suddenly felt episodes of whispering 2 years ago, and went to the local hospital and psychiatric hospital for treatment. Ms. Zhang had to go home to recuperate, and after a period of psychiatric treatment, she felt better. But it didn’t take long for the attacks to recur and become more severe than ever, and she couldn’t rest all day. “In order to cure my disease, I went to many hospitals, Chinese and Western doctors have seen, but I could not find out what the cause. In desperation, I even prayed to the gods, but my condition did not improve.” Ms. Zhang recalls.  Finally, Ms. Zhang and her family came to our neurology department, hoping to get a clear diagnosis and treatment. After understanding her condition, Dr. Dong Bineng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Neurology of our hospital, told them with certainty: “The patient is suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy, and her condition is already very serious, requiring systematic and standardized treatment and hospitalization. Later, Ms. Zhang was further examined to improve the cause of the disease and found to have a parasitic worm infection in the left temporal lobe of her brain, so anti-epileptic and parasitic worm killing treatment was carried out, and Ms. Zhang’s condition, was quickly controlled and relieved, and after several months of treatment, the patient’s symptoms disappeared and she lived a normal working life.  According to Dr. Dong Bineng, epilepsy is a disease with a high incidence and many seizures in non-convulsive form, making it impossible to get timely and correct diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Therefore, for some recurrent seizures of unknown origin, if the cause cannot be clarified after relevant examinations and conventional treatment does not work well, it is important to go to an epilepsy specialist in time to further investigate the possibility of epilepsy and do further relevant examinations to prevent delays in the condition.