3Epilepsy:
When seizures occur unprovoked by fever and for more than one time, it is considered epilepsy.
The most common cause of epilepsy is idiopathic. Other causes are secondary epilepsy which is secondary to brain hypoxia (e.g. during obstructed labour), head injury, genetic defects, and congenital abnormalities and subsequent brain malformations, infection as meningitis and encephalitis, brain abscess, and brain tumor. What’s good news in the treatment of epilepsy? Since 30% of patients suffering from epilepsy showing no response to the current market anti-epilepsy treatment, the theory that epilepsy caused by abnormal electrical brain activity is now changing. There are new researches that trying to prove the role of the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) as a contribution of the pathogenesis of resistant epilepsy, that being said seizures cause dysfunction of the lining of BBB capillaries resulting in letting the needed nutrients out of the brain and keeping the toxins inside it, that leads to further convulsion and progression of epilepsy. The discovery which is a drug named cPLA2 that theoretically could repair the BBB permeability and maintain its normal function, it could be the hope of the epilepsy patients (5). Is your child different from his classmates? Epilepsy causes limitations only during the episode of seizures. Patients, who have epilepsy, are functioning normally and their IQ level isn’t affected by their epilepsy. Patients that suffer from epilepsy don’t have any mental disabilities or psychological abnormalities. They are emotionally stable, and their feelings are completely normal.
Some patients can get completely controlled with the medication; others can stop taking their medicine after a while (6).
