Causes of epilepsy

The diagnosis of epileptic is made if it has had epileptic seizures at least twice.

Quite often, seizures can occur in newborn babies.

However, this does not mean that in the future you will develop epilepsy.

Epilepsy can be affected by any person, of any gender and age.

However, most often this disease people suffer in adolescence.

About 75% of patients with epilepsy are young people under the age of twenty.

Older people "owe" their illness to various injuries and strokes.

Older people over 60 years belong to the risk group.

In connection with the main cause of the disease, epilepsy can be divided into two main groups:

• hereditary epilepsy arising from the transfer of genetic information from their parents;
• acquired epilepsy, the root cause of which are certain certain symptoms of the disease( trauma, illness).

Causes of epilepsy

It is impossible to find a common cause of epilepsy, explaining its occurrence.

It is difficult to say that epilepsy is a hereditary( genetic) disease, because in some families people who suffer from "falling sickness"( another name for epilepsy) are sometimes found.

Almost half of all epileptics( 40%) have close relatives who are sick with such a disease.

There are several subspecies of epileptic seizures with varying degrees of severity:

• partial( focal) tells us that only one half of the brain participates in a seizure;
• generalized spreads its influence to the entire brain;The
• mixed attack begins in one half of the brain, and then covers the entire brain tissue.

Unfortunately, in almost 70% of cases, the main cause of the disease is unknown.

What causes epileptic seizure:

• stroke;
• craniocereberal trauma;
• oxygen starvation;
• brain tumor;
• lack of blood supply to the infant's brain during childbirth;
• hereditary factors;
• brain abscess;
• parasitic and viral diseases;
• meningitis;
• malformation( disorders in the structure of the brain).

Causes of epilepsy in children

As a rule, convulsions during pregnancy lead to the appearance of:

• of brain internal hemorrhages;
• newborns hypoglycemia;
• severe form of hypoxia.

In addition, they can cause the development of a chronic form of epilepsy.

Among the root causes of the disease are:

• meningitis;
• toxicoses;
• thrombosis;
• hypoxia;
• embolism;
• encephalitis;
• concussion.

Causes of epilepsy in adults

As a rule, the causes of epilepsy in adults are:

• traumatization of brain tissue( concussions, bruises);
• infection of the brain( tetanus, rabies, abscesses, meningitis, arachnoiditis, encephalitis, toxoplasmosis);
• organic brain disorders( tumors, cysts);
• some medicines( antibiotics, antimalarials, immunosuppressants, anxiolytics);
• infringement of a blood circulation of a brain( insults);
• multiple sclerosis;
• congenital abnormalities of brain tissue;
• antiphospholipid syndrome;
• lead poisoning or strychnine;
• atherosclerosis of vessels;
• ephedrine, amphetamine, cocaine addiction;
• sudden withdrawal of sedative and hypnotics, alcohol.

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