What is Epilepsy?

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Fainting Spells? Jerks?

This article will explain what is Epilepsy.

Causes of Epilepsy? and what is the best homeopathic treatment for epilepsy?

What is Epilepsy?

Epilepsy is defined as recurrent seizures. It is a common problem that affects the nervous system.

Seizures are frequent and sudden outbursts of electrical activity in the brain.

Types of Epilepsy

• Focal seizures
  • Simple partial (focal) seizures
  • Complex partial (focal) seizures
  • Generalized Seizures
• Tonic-clonic seizures/ Grand mal
  • Absences/ Petit mal
  • Myoclonic seizures
  • Clonic seizures
  • Tonic seizures
  • Atonic seizures
• Status epilepticus

Signs and Symptoms of Epilepsy

Seizures can affect different people in different ways, depends on which part of the brain is involved. Symptoms include:

• out of control jerking and shaking often called "fit"
• stiffness
• loss of awareness and staring blankly into space
• strange sensations before seizure often called Aura such as a rising feeling in the tummy, unusual smells or tastes or a tingling feeling in your arms or legs
• collapse

Occasionally the patient does not remember what happened to him

Prevalence Rate

12 out of 1000 suffer from Epilepsy

Causes of epilepsy

• Brain malformations
• Lack of oxygen during birth
• Low levels of blood sugar, blood calcium, blood magnesium or other electrolyte problems
• Inborn errors of metabolism
• Intracranial haemorrhage
• Genetic
• Maternal drug use 
• Fever
• Brain tumor
• Infections
• Congenital conditions
• Progressive brain disease
• Stroke
• Alzheimer's disease
• Trauma

HomoeoCARE's Approach

Epilepsy is caused by of hyper-stimulation of neurons. Traditionally anti epileptics are given to the patient and suppress not only the hyper-stimulated neurons but also suppress the whole activity of the brain which leads to sleepiness, tired feeling, weakness of memory, etc. We at HomoeoCARE give homeopathic medicines that are known to affect only the hyper-stimulated neurons and bring them into the normal range without suppressing the activity of the brain. Modern medicine treats epilepsy with side effects whereas Homoeopathy treats epilepsy without any side effects.