Epilepsy is a series of symptoms such as limb twitching caused by abnormal discharge of neurons in the brain. Epilepsy seizures can occur anytime and anywhere, causing a great threat to the personal safety of patients, so timely treatment is important. In epilepsy treatment, medication is generally preferred, and many patients even need to take long-term medication to control their condition, so what are the characteristics of epilepsy medication? 1, short-term can not be cured: many epilepsy patients need long-term or even lifelong medication. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the results of the study. For those patients with poor liver and kidney function, it is even more difficult for the body to bear. The most important thing is that the children are very young, and their intelligence and body are in the development stage, so many parents are worried that long-term use of western medicine will cause irreparable damage to their children’s intellectual development and liver and kidney functions. The parents of children with epilepsy should not give their children indiscriminate medication, but should use the medication under the guidance of epilepsy experts. 4, the lack of good complementarity between many anti-epileptic western drugs, even if the change of drugs, the effect is not good. Therefore, in order to control seizures effectively in the long term, patients need to take medication as instructed, because professional doctors will give appropriate medication and reasonable medication guidance according to the type of epilepsy, age, physical condition, and severity of the patient’s condition. During the treatment process, patients should have regular follow-ups and maintain timely communication with their primary care physicians. If long-term epilepsy medication is not effective, then surgical methods should be considered. Current surgical procedures for epilepsy include epileptic focal resection and vagus nerve electrical stimulation. In the case of epilepsy, focal resection is required to identify the site of the lesion, and the lesion is removed by craniotomy to treat the epilepsy. However, not all patients with epilepsy are suitable for this procedure. A large proportion of patients have scattered or imprecise localization of the foci, or are located in important functional areas, which prevents them from undergoing focal resection. Vagus nerve stimulation, a minimally invasive procedure that does not require craniotomy, inhibits the excitability of cortical neurons by stimulating the vagus nerve on one side of the neck, resulting in a reduction in the number of seizures and even complete control of epilepsy in some patients. This opens up new treatment avenues for patients with intractable epilepsy who cannot undergo resection surgery or who have recurrence after resection. The procedure has no damage to brain tissue and function, has few side effects, improves the patient’s quality of life, improves memory, reduces the impact of recurrent seizures on the patient’s intelligence, and reduces the side effects of long-term medication. It is also ideal for children with epilepsy and reduces the effects of medication on the child.