How should people with epilepsy spend their holidays?

  When the Chinese New Year is approaching, many patients come to the clinic for follow-up, and while they are happy about the holidays, they ask the same questions, such as: Doctor, we are going home for the Chinese New Year, so we won’t be able to visit you for the next month. Another example is: Doctor, we are going home for New Year’s Eve, you can see that this is a happy time for the whole family to have a reunion, and there are various drinks and parties, so what do you need to pay attention to during the party?  Can you prescribe more medicine thing this doctor does not say, the hospital has its own hospital rules and regulations; but several other issues I can still say a little.  1, the drinking thing: Chinese people attach the most importance to the New Year thing, after all, this year is so once, some places to the New Year’s Day from the first day of the year all the way through to the 15th of the first month before the end, during this period to visit friends and relatives door to door as guests, in the family banquet family feast push a cup for a banquet and so belong to the natural thing, for this, Dr. S to say is: if you are a patient with epilepsy, in such occasions must The most important thing is to learn how to control yourself. Epilepsy is a chronic disease in neurology, and many patients rely on long-term rational and standardized medication to get it under control; in addition to standardized medication, regular life is also essential.  As the saying goes, drinking alcohol hurts the body, and this is something that epilepsy specialists do not advocate or agree with. Therefore, if a patient or family member asks my opinion on alcohol consumption, I would disagree with it a million times. It is recommended that families with epilepsy patients should pay attention to this matter, point to stop, not to spell wine not to persuade wine not to greedy cups, even if they do not suffer from epilepsy, excessive alcohol consumption in internal medicine will also hurt the liver pancreas and other organs, in our neurology will cause periodic paralysis and other diseases, so be careful!  The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a few of the most important things you can do. This is especially important for people with epilepsy or families with epilepsy.  I would like to point out here that there is a special type of epilepsy, called “reflex epilepsy” in our common terminology, which refers to seizures caused by some special and specific stimuli, and among these special stimuli, activities such as playing mahjong and chess are the first and foremost important triggers. In my daily work, I often encounter cases of seizures during mahjong and mahjong playing. The patient may not have a clinical seizure anymore if he or she can control his or her life without taking medication. The family with epilepsy is advised to stop recreational activities in moderation, and a good lifestyle is worth promoting!  The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the website. I was once a student patient during the holidays to review the EEG, he was proud to say to me, usually the mother’s strict control of the study is also busy so do not care to catch up with the drama, but as soon as the holidays, what Langya list Prince Consort and so on, he only need to spend a whole weekend to catch up, forty or fifty episodes of the hit drama will be able to catch up with all, that is a sound ah! The 16-year-old child has his own ideas: usually you control I have a reason, why holiday holidays you still control. There is no freedom to live happily anymore? Although the words are true, but the child’s mother said to me, the baby son usually regular life medication norms did not see any seizures, but a holiday the whole rhythm has changed: in addition to completing homework, the rest of the time is basically a game computer ipad turn; TV is not rare, two episodes a day how can be addictive, directly to the network video tools to download the full drama every day to see late at night! This night is not sleeping naturally is not up in the morning, the result of the reversal of the day and night is that along with the medication thing is also a mess! It is no wonder that many parents are worried: children’s morbidity will increase when the holidays come, in the end, what should be done?  In this case, Dr. S’s advice is: you should take charge of your child’s life, but parents need to be calm and take advantage of the situation, mainly by persuasion, if you are forced to do it, the situation will only get worse; if not, bring them to our doctor, then I will ask him: do you want to be free of medication for the rest of your life? Do you want to be completely well? If you want to, then you have to listen to the doctor’s words, when you should eat, when you sleep; for chronic diseases, drugs are only part of the story, as long as you do a good job of life, to overcome the disease is already a big success! According to experience, the psychological condition of the children I know is mostly: at home, they are not afraid of the world, but out of the door, they are afraid of the teacher and the doctor, and the mother said that the words of the great effect, to our doctor will work. Doctors should originally help patients to solve their problems, good doctor-patient relationship is also in this time and again in the exchange gradually established.  Finally, about the hospital holiday holiday thing, I have to say: doctors are also people, the New Year’s holiday also need to rest, in general, the hospital outpatient clinic will be closed for about a week, but in the middle will open two days of civilian clinic, and our emergency room is like Rosen, basically belongs to the 24-hour year-end off, the New Year’s holiday seizure or something, not serious at home to continue to live regular and timely medication, once the frequent seizures or appear The hospital is always at the service of the patient, we should do what we can!