1, epilepsy is harmful to health, mainly manifested as seizure, headache, dizziness, palpitation, shortness of breath, hand tremor, fatigue and so on. During the seizure, the patient's behavior may cause accidental injuries, such as collision and fall.
2. Epilepsy patients often suffer from cognitive impairment, mainly manifested as impaired perception, decreased attention, decreased memory, decreased abstract generalization ability, thinking and reasoning ability, planning and judgment ability, calculation ability and vocabulary expression ability, and physical pain of epilepsy patients, which seriously affects the quality of work, study and life.
3. A large number of epileptic patients have obvious mental and behavioral abnormalities, mostly manifested as depression, anxiety and other emotional changes, such as epileptic personality, schizophrenia-like psychosis, neurosis, mental decline and so on. Do epileptic patients suffer physically? Depression is the most common complication of epilepsy patients, which significantly increases the suicide rate of patients.
Can epilepsy affect life span? After all, the specific situation of each patient is different. Some patients can't bear such great pressure and often commit suicide. Moreover, when the brain is infected or there are other complications, there will also be some life-threatening problems. The probability of accidental injury or sudden death also exists.
Although epilepsy is fatal, it does not mean that all patients will encounter such a high-risk situation. In fact, the condition is not serious at the initial stage of the disease. If it is treated correctly in time, not only the curative effect is good, but also the prognosis is optimistic. It can be seen that the specific attack type and even the severity of the patient's illness will affect the patient's life span to a certain extent.
Moreover, how long the life span of epileptic patients will be affected by many factors, and the degree of harm is different for different types of epilepsy. If you have an absence attack, it will not endanger your life, but once you enter a state of persistent attack, the problem will be serious. Long-term persistent convulsions will put human indications at high risk. If you can't treat it in time, you may lose your life.
In addition, epilepsy also has a certain probability of sudden death, but this situation mostly occurs in male patients aged 20-40. Because of the pressure of work and life, physical and mental fatigue for a long time, and the influence of various bad habits such as smoking and drinking, you will die suddenly. And accidental injury, suicide or various complications are also fatal.