Patients with epilepsy should have a good routine and diet to avoid being too full, too hungry, and drinking too much water. Food should be light, not spicy, and smoking and alcohol need to be quit. Drinking alcohol can induce seizures. The main component of alcohol is ethanol, which has a direct inhibitory effect on higher neural activity and makes the brain work less well. Seizures are caused by a “stagnant foci of pathological excitation” in the cerebral cortex. When the excitement spreads to a motor area of the cortex, it causes a limb or even a generalized seizure. Chronic ethanol (alcohol) intoxication can cause structural and functional changes in the cerebral cortex, resulting in seizures; long-term alcohol addicts can also experience seizures when they quit drinking. In patients who are taking antiepileptic drugs, ethanol can induce the proliferation of liver drug metabolizing enzymes, which accelerates the metabolism of antiepileptic drugs, making it easy for the drug concentration to decrease, reducing the efficacy and causing seizures. Therefore, patients with epilepsy should abstain from all alcohol and beverages containing ethanol (alcohol).