Question
Patient Age: 9 Patient Gender: Female Disease Description: My daughter is 9 years old and has had epilepsy symptoms for 6 years. She had a brain CT scan, which was normal, but the electroencephalogram was abnormal. We are very anxious at home. During her seizures, she has whole-body convulsions, stiffness, frothing at the mouth, chills, and urinary incontinence. The seizures are irregular, and she doesn’t respond even when called. She is currently undergoing Western medicine treatment, but the effect is not good, and she still has occasional seizures. What are the other treatment methods for epilepsy? How should it be treated more effectively?
Answer
The main treatment methods for epilepsy currently include two categories: medication treatment, which is the first choice for epilepsy treatment; and surgical treatment, which is suitable for refractory and intractable epilepsy that is not responsive to medication and some secondary epilepsy that is suitable for surgery. However, this treatment method carries certain risks, so it is generally not the first choice. There are also some auxiliary treatments, such as acupuncture, thread insertion, drug implantation, and external treatment devices, but these can only be used as complementary treatments at present.