EPILEPSY

What is epilepsy?
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that results when something interferes with electrical impulses in the brain. In this disorder, the nervous system produces intense, abnormal bursts of electrical activity in the brain, which can lead to seizures. Seizures temporarily interfere with muscle control, movement, speech, vision, awareness. Having seizures can be terrifying, especially if they are severe. Fortunately, treatment is available to reduce the abnormal electrical impulses in your brain and control seizures. Epilepsy is not a form of mental retardation or mental illness and is not contagious.

What causes epilepsy?
The cause of epilepsy is not always clear. Less than one-half of people with epilepsy have an identifiable, primary cause. Epilepsy is sometimes the result of another condition, such as head injury, brain tumor, brain infection, or stroke.

What are the symptoms?
The main symptom of epilepsy is repeated seizures that occur without warning and often for no clear reason. If left untreated, seizures may continue and even become more severe and more frequent over time. The way a seizure manifests itself may vary from person to person. For example, your senses may briefly stop working, or you may lose muscle control and your body may twitch or jerk. Some people become trancelike (stare off into space), unconscious, or have convulsions. A combination of seizures is also possible. Not everyone who has seizures has epilepsy. Sometimes seizures occur as a result of injury, illness, or another medical condition that is not related to epilepsy. In these cases, seizures stop once the condition improves or goes away. Epilepsy is a chronic (long-term) disorder that causes repeated seizures if left untreated or which sometimes continue despite treatment.

WHAT IS ACUTE TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY

    Acute toxic encephalopathy is caused by the abrupt appearance of symptoms and signs of the central nervous system in the course of primary diseases. The reason of the desease is unknown. The disease may be associated with immunoreaction to infection and its toxin invading the brain tissue directly. In Acupuncture, this is called 'jing feng'(infantile convulsion).

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS

1. It may occur at any age, but usually in infants from 1 to 3 years old. The brain damage always follow by the primary disorders within a few days or 1 to 2 weeks after their attack.

2. The diagnosis is usually abrupt with high fever, headache, vomiting, restlessness, convulsion, coma, delayed reaction to light, always come with holotonia, decerebrate rigidity. Some of the patients may have the symptoms of meningeal irritation, increased or reduced of tendon reflex and have cerebellar symptoms, such as ataxia and kinetic tremor.

3. The lab exam shows that cerebrospinal fluid is clear. All are normal only the pressure is high and sometimes there is a slight increase of protein.

4. By fundus exam, Arteriolar spasm, blood stasis of small vein and retinal edema can be observed.

TYPES OF SYNDROMES

1. Always seen in the stage of cerebral edema of toxic encephalopathy, in the case of the primary disease, with abrupt high fever, headache, vomiting, restlessness, delirium, drowsiness, convulsions of the limbs, involuntary staring, lockjaw or unconsciousness, deep-red tongue with yellow and dry fur, stiffness of the extremities and neck, either taut and rapid or slippery and rapid pulse.

EPILEPSY ACUPUNCTURE

Epilepsy is a disease which defined as paroxysmal and temporary disturbance of brain characterized by loss of consciousness or muscle tic or abnormal sensation, emotion and behaviour.

MASTERTOLE EPILEPSY HERBAL TREATMENT

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EPILEPSY HERBAL CURE

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CANCER HERBAL EPILEPSY ACUPUNCTURE

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