Dietary considerations for patients with epilepsy

The dietary considerations of epileptic patients are mainly the following: First, the need to increase the intake of magnesium, adult men need 350mg of magnesium daily to maintain the balance of magnesium, epileptic patients are prone to magnesium deficiency, so in daily life need to eat more millet, corn, soy, celery, chicken food to supplement the intake of magnesium. The second, should not eat too much food containing zinc, epilepsy patients found in the examination of zinc content is much higher than normal people, usually in daily life should pay attention to avoid eating food containing too much zinc. The third, pay attention to avoid eating food that can induce seizures, such as strong tea, coffee, spirits and other foods that can easily induce seizures, should be prohibited, seafood should also try to avoid eating, chili, pepper, onion and other spicy stimulating food as little as possible.