What is epilepsy? Detailed answer

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What is epilepsy?

In ancient times, people did not understand the essence of diseases and their causes. Therefore, they often dealt very cruelly with those who were ill with certain diseases. Epileptics in the Middle Ages were considered crazy or bewitched. Did you know that many great people and many geniuses were epileptics? Among them are the Duke of Wellington, Richard Wagner, Vincent van Gogh and Louis-Hector Berlioz.

Epilepsy is a disease of the nervous system. Epileptics are prone to sudden seizures, during which they have spasms called convulsions, and after them they can lose consciousness or fall into a coma.

Doctors still cannot explain what happens during illness and what causes convulsions. It seems that the normal functions of the brain are disturbed for a while. The brain tissue in such people is very sensitive to chemical changes, and when such changes occur, the brain sends signals that cause convulsions.

In a person predisposed to epilepsy, such reactions are observed, while in other people the same chemical changes can occur, which, however, do not lead to convulsions. There is a possibility that this disease is inherited.

An epileptic seizure can occur due to damage to the head, high fever, tumors or scars in the substance of the brain, circulatory disorders, and so on. Epilepsy can result from brain damage.

Epilepsy, however, has nothing to do with mental development. A person suffering from epilepsy should be considered a normal person, and not an invalid or some kind of outcast. Epileptics can lead a normal life - go to school, work, create families, raise children.

Medicine has developed drugs to prevent seizures and control them when they occur. These medicines are usually given to people for many years, if not their entire lives, so they can lead normal, happy lives.

Author: Likum A.

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