Surgery as a Means of Treating Epilepsy – Pikiran Rakyat Koran

REMEMBER epilepsy, our memory may wander to Public Service Advertisements (PSAs) in the 1990s which featured a football game followed by a child with epilepsy and his friend, accompanied by a mother. The advertising paradigm is “epilepsy is not an infectious disease, not a hereditary disease; with regular medication they can live a normal life”, apparently causing people with epilepsy to be ostracized. What about epilepsy today?

Epilepsy is a collection of symptoms of recurrent seizures or seizures, which are influenced by the central nervous system. Epileptic seizures are caused by abnormal changes in electrical shock (shock) in the walls of nerve cells.

Neurosurgeon Specialist Doctor from Santosa Hospital Bandung Kopo (Santosa Kopo Hospital Bandung) Arief Setia Handoko said, the cause of epileptic seizures is mainly changes in abnormal electrical shocks in the walls of nerve cells, especially nerve cells on the surface of the brain (cortical). . Some causes of abnormalities that give symptoms of epileptic seizures include traumatic brain injury, infection or inflammation of the brain (brain lining), tumors, spontaneous bleeding (stroke), hydrocephalus, and other primary brain abnormalities.

Symptoms shown by sufferers of epilepsy are forms of seizures which are divided into generalized seizures (more commonly referred to as “twitching” on all sides of the body), partial seizures (appears only on certain parts of the body), and other forms of seizures.

These seizures can be triggered in conditions such as hypoxia (lack of oxygen intake to the brain), hypoglycemia (lack of glucose levels in the blood), excessive stress, dehydration with an imbalance in body electrolyte levels, and drastic changes in body temperature.

Editor: Huminca Sinaga