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Living With Epilepsy
Is Epilepsy Congenital - Will I
have it Forever?
Epilepsy: A Congenital Disorder
Is Epilepsy Congenital? Will I have it forever? When are people most likely to
get epilepsy?
What does congenital mean? According to the Webster’s dictionary, congenital
means present at birth or acquired during fetal development and not hereditary.
Thus, epilepsy could be seen as a congenital disorder or it was already present
when the child is born or in some cases, he child may have acquired it when his
mother had some complications during his development while still in fetal
form.
New cases of epilepsy are common among children aged a year or two. However,
its rate progressively declines until the age of ten, and eventually
stabilizes.
Epilepsy can be both congenital as well as hereditary. Yes, this is a fact.
Most patients were diagnosed to have its symptoms as early as an infant to
adolescents to middle age people to over age adults.
Some children may be inborn with a brain defect, or in some cases, they may have
a head injury or infection that causes their epilepsy. In young adults, the
common cause of epilepsy would be a critical injury in the head. While in the
middle age, the most common causes would still be a serious head injury plus
tumors and strokes which are very frequent. For those people sixty years of age
and above, stroke would be the most common cause, which if not controlled may
eventually result in some degenerative situation such as Alzheimer's disease.
Seizures
Seizures are a symptom of this disorder, epilepsy. How serious are these
seizures? Seizures can range from mild to very severe. Of course this would be
when not treated properly.
Yes, medicine can help minimize attacks of seizures of epileptic people. But
in cases of a long long-term convulsive seizure, this would be very alarming.
This would be a medical emergency and if not stopped within about thirty
minutes, this may cause a permanent injury or even death.
Life Expectancy
If I have epilepsy, how long will I live? This is a question of people who are
desperate and have already lost hope, knowing that they have such as disorder.
Don’t despair, have hope! There are many specialists out there who can help
you! They know epilepsy better than you do!
Life is expected to continue as long as you have discipline. People who suffer
from severe strokes have greater chances of dying sooner than those who don’t.
A brain tumor, on the other hand, would also be very fatal for a person with
epilepsy. The life expectancy of people with epilepsy, who are very sickly, is
the same for everyone. But in cases like serious strokes and other such
ailment, epilepsy may cause them to die early.
Is Epilepsy Incurable?
Since epilepsy is congenital, it can live with you for the rest of your life.
Hence, you don’t have to be bothered a lot. There are prescribed medicines out
there that can help you ease your seizure attacks. Thus, in one way or another,
when taken properly together with a healthy lifestyle, medicines can help you
become seizure-free.
Even though there is no guarantee of being cured from epilepsy, you cannot
conclude that epilepsy is incurable. Serious attacks can be prevented and
controlled. However, even if medicines can help in making a person free from
seizure in quite some time, there is still a need to be very careful concerning
likely accidents.
Epilepsy: A life-long disorder?
Normally, seizures affect the lifestyle of people with epilepsy. Hence, even if
these people require constant medication, they are not decided to do it for the
rest of their lives. For people like this, a positive aura is convincing them
that they might get cured, if not, at least just for a short time. Sixty
percent of epileptic people who are experiencing seizures can be easily
controlled and more likely to go away. But still, there are twenty-five percent
who may develop serious seizures that are likely to be treated lifetime. As it
has been said, more than ½ of childhood epilepsy can be outgrown.
Nevertheless, if ever someone is declared as seizure-free for about 1-3 years,
medications can be withdrawn and stopped when advised by a doctor.
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