Nursing epilepsy requires more skills

　　Many patients with epilepsy have basically stabilized their condition after being discharged from the hospital. If they are treated well after being discharged from the hospital, they can slowly reduce the number of epileptic seizures and then be completely cured. Many people do not understand the care of epilepsy and do not do a good job of care after being discharged from the hospital. As a result, the epilepsy becomes serious again and they have to go to the hospital for treatment. In fact, caring for epilepsy does not mean that patients should eat well, drink well, and take medicine in a timely manner.

　　1. Eat a light and nutritious diet

　　Patients with epilepsy should eat the same diet as normal people. There are no special requirements. They should try to diversify their food, eat more nutritious and easy-to-digest foods, and pay attention to the nutrition of their diet. Epilepsy patients should not eat spicy food, overeat, drink large amounts of water at one time, or drink strong tea, coffee and other stimulant drinks.

　　2. Increase calcium intake appropriately

　　It is best for elderly patients with epilepsy to increase their calcium intake in their diet. After all, calcium deficiency in the elderly can easily cause osteoporosis. When supplementing calcium, the elderly should eat a reasonable diet according to their physical condition to promote calcium absorption. However, special attention needs to be paid to the fact that calcium supplement alone cannot comprehensively prevent and treat osteoporosis. Factors such as endocrine disorders, reduced vitamin D activity, reduced exercise, and excessive salt intake may cause osteoporosis in the elderly.

　　3. Limit water and salt intake

　　Medical research believes that epileptic seizures start from the center of the brain, the diencephalon, and stimulating the diencephalon can cause epileptic seizures. The diencephalon is the regulating center of human body fluids. A large amount of liquid food and salt entering the body will increase the burden on the diencephalon and lead to epileptic seizures. Therefore, epilepsy patients should try to eat as little water and salt as possible, including juice, cola, watermelon, pickles, salted fish, bacon, etc.

　　1. Eager for success

　　Many patients and their families lack a full understanding of epilepsy as a chronic brain dysfunction. They are eager to seek treatment and hope to be cured in a short time. Once they are not satisfied with the treatment effect, they adjust the dosage or change the type of medicine without authorization, frequently change hospitals and attending doctors, and even believe in so-called folk remedies, which can only result in delayed treatment.

　　2. Consider yourself “recovered””

　　After some patients have their epilepsy symptoms under control, they think they have recovered and then stop taking the medication without authorization, leading to a recurrence of the disease. Epilepsy is the result of abnormal discharge of brain neurons. Restoring the original state of brain tissue requires a long-term conditioning process and cannot be solved overnight.

　　3. Too many dietary taboos

　　Because some foods may cause epileptic seizures, it is unnecessary to impose excessive restrictions on epilepsy patients' daily diet. Although food can induce epilepsy, it is not an absolute factor. Moreover, epilepsy patients also need to consume a diverse diet to provide the body with rich nutrients.

　　4. Not paying attention to avoid triggering factors

　　Some epilepsy patients and their family members believe that symptoms can be controlled as long as they receive treatment and take medicine as prescribed by the doctor. Therefore, they ignore some triggering factors in life, such as not paying attention to rest, people with allergies not paying attention to avoiding allergens, and violent mood swings, etc., which may induce epileptic seizures.

　　Epilepsy is a neurological disease. When caring for patients, we should take the patient's mood into consideration. In the future, whether the patient is in a good or bad mood, we must not force the patient to do something he or she does not like to do.