1. How much do you know about epilepsy? When it comes to diabetes, hypertension, AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases, even medical laymen know a little bit about them, and many of them can even talk about them eloquently. As for epilepsy, many people may not have heard of it, and even if they have heard of it, they may not know much about it. If you are still clueless about epilepsy, a different name, if it is called sheep epilepsy, may be more impressive to the general public. In fact, in the professional world, epilepsy is one of the many diseases that should be treated properly after the diagnosis is confirmed. Many people have an inexplicable fear of epilepsy, which actually stems from a lack of understanding of epilepsy and even a lot of misconceptions. If you have the right understanding of epilepsy, you will not be afraid of seizure patients and you will be able to face them openly. 2. What kind of disease is epilepsy? Before understanding what kind of disease epilepsy is, we must first have a basic understanding of the function of brain cells. Living brain cells emit minute amounts of electrical waves at all times in order to transmit information from cell to cell to maintain normal neurological function, which is the basic factor why a normal person can move, speak, calculate, and think. If a person’s brain cells are injured and lose their function, and the electrical waves between cells are unable to transmit information properly, then brain dysfunction such as degeneration of intelligence, inability to speak, and paralysis of the arms and legs may occur than manifest. The reason why epileptic patients have seizures is that they are caused by abnormal brain cell firing. At the moment when these brain cells are in normal discharge, the epileptic patient does not show any abnormalities and it is absolutely impossible to identify who has epilepsy from the outside. However, when many brain cells discharge strong electrical waves at the same time, which is the medical term for abnormal discharge, the patient’s epilepsy symptoms will appear, and the symptoms presented are called seizures. Therefore, we can summarize epilepsy as follows: epilepsy is a chronic condition that originates in the brain and is caused by the sudden release of abnormal electrical waves from brain cells, resulting in irregular and recurrent seizures that can occur at any time, with a wide range of symptoms. The prevalence of epilepsy is about 0.5%, 0.8% and 1% in developed, developing and underdeveloped countries, respectively, affecting the daily lives of tens of millions of patients and their relatives.