What harm does epileptic drug treatment have to children?
? People are no strangers to epilepsy, which is an ever-present disease in our lives. Moreover, epilepsy is a chronic disease, and children are high-risk groups of epilepsy. Seizures not only do physical harm to children to a great extent, but also affect their daily life and healthy growth. Children's medication is more harmful to their health. Antiepileptic drugs prevent seizures by reducing the excitability of brain cells. Children's brains are in the developing stage. If the drug is used for a long time, it will easily lead to brain cell hypoxia, edema, memory loss, personality change and slow response, and patients will feel dizzy, dizzy, blurred vision and unstable walking. Examination can find cerebellar ataxia, such as nystagmus, diplopia, dysarthria, inaccurate finger and nose, unstable standing, hand tremor and so on. The above epileptic symptoms can be found in time, and most of them can return to normal if they are relieved or stopped in time. If not treated in time, it will cause irreversible damage. In addition to the above cerebellar symptoms, patients who take antiepileptic drugs for a long time have abnormal behavior, emotional changes, increased slow waves in EEG and high-amplitude δ waves. Some patients also have involuntary movement, dance-like movement, oral and facial muscle movement disorders. Some patients may have peripheral neuropathy after taking the medicine, and the general clinical symptoms are not obvious, mainly because the knee joint and achilles tendon reflex disappear and the nerve conduction speed slows down. Some patients have similar manifestations to myasthenia gravis, and EMG shows obvious muscle fatigue, which is suitable for single drug treatment of epilepsy in children. Choose drugs according to the type of attack and inducing factors, choose a single drug, take drugs regularly, increase or decrease or stop taking drugs under the guidance of doctors according to the development of the disease. While taking the medicine, it is also helpful for reexamination, which allows doctors to know the patient's condition in time and adjust the dose of antiepileptic drugs scientifically and pragmatically. Long-term drug accumulation does not rule out a series of uncomfortable symptoms caused by drug poisoning due to high blood concentration in the body, so we should choose the best method to treat epilepsy. Epilepsy patients and their parents should know that epilepsy drugs can only control epilepsy, and cannot go deep into the brain to repair damaged brain neurons. The toxic and side effects of long-term use on the body must attract the attention of epileptic patients, so as not to delay their illness, master the characteristics of their own seizures and the incentives that are easy to cause seizures. During the treatment, we should provide information about the illness seriously, follow the doctor's advice, check and take medicine on time, and read some books to understand the common sense of epilepsy. I wish you a speedy recovery.