Why do you get epilepsy? Can epilepsy be cured?

Epilepsy, commonly known as “crohn’s disease” and “sheep epilepsy”, is a chronic disease with a high incidence, which is very harmful to patients and may develop anytime and anywhere. Can epilepsy be cured? Epilepsy, due to sudden abnormal discharges of neurons in the brain triggering complex and diverse clinical manifestations, can manifest as seizure motor, sensory, autonomic, consciousness and mental disorders. There are many causes of epilepsy, which are classified as primary epilepsy and secondary epilepsy according to the cause. Primary epilepsy is a condition in which no clear clinical cause can be found, and various biochemical and imaging tests cannot find a lesion in a definite part or structure of the brain. However, it is possible to identify secondary epilepsy, which has more causes, and the common causes are the following Congenital disorders: including congenital hydrocephalus, cerebral nerve, cerebral cortex hypoplasia, chromosomal abnormalities, etc. Brain injury: including infantile and acquired brain injury. Infantile brain injury refers to fetal brain contusion, edema, hemorrhage, etc. during birth, and accidental head fall in early childhood, etc. Acquired brain injury refers to accidents in youth and adulthood that result in brain injury, and whether or not they leave sequelae of epilepsy is related to the site and degree of injury. Brain infections: various kinds of encephalitis, meningitis, brain abscess and other infections that leave epileptic foci after treatment. There are also parasitic diseases (including cerebral schistosomiasis, cerebral pulmonary schistosomiasis, and cerebral cysticercosis) that trigger epilepsy. Brain tumors: Brain tumor occupancy is a common cause, especially glioma, meningioma, astrocytoma, etc.. They are more common in middle age and are an important cause of secondary epilepsy. Brain poisoning: including toxic gases (carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, etc.), heavy metals (lead, mercury poisoning), and alcohol poisoning are prone to damage the brain nerves and trigger epilepsy. Diseases: Some diseases can also trigger epilepsy, such as cerebrovascular epilepsy, hemorrhagic and ischemic vascular disease, and systemic diseases such as hepatic encephalopathy, hypertensive syndrome, acute nephritis, uremia, hypoglycemia, hyperthyroidism vitamin B6 deficiency, etc. Epilepsy can occur. All of these are common causes of epilepsy and can be effectively prevented. If epilepsy has occurred, it needs to receive formal treatment, some secondary patients can be cured by removing the cause, some patients need long-term medication to control seizures, or can do surgery to cure epilepsy, but there are still some patients belong to refractory epilepsy, drug effect is not good, not suitable for surgical removal, then a new method can be considered – Vagus nerve electrical stimulation, a method to treat epilepsy through neuromodulation without opening the skull. This method plays an active role in the treatment of refractory epilepsy that cannot be controlled by medications. It improves the firing pattern of the brain by stimulating the vagus nerve on the left side of the body, which serves to control seizures.