Cold!Cold!Cold!Cold!
The weather has been freezing hands and feet lately.
The effects of the last cold spell are not over yet.
Since today, there has been another strong cold air.
The temperature in Chengdu ushered in "**
It has ushered in a "cliff-like" cooling down one after another.
It's time to summon Autumn Pants!
The cold is for most people.
It's all extraordinarily long.
Especially for people with epilepsy, it is very difficult.
As the temperature drops.
Epilepsy patients' mood, diet.
can cause seizures.
It may even be possible to die suddenly at or after an attack.
Ask. What is sudden death from epilepsy?
The accurate name for sudden death from epilepsy should be "sudden death of unknown epilepsy", which refers to the sudden death of a person with epilepsy without other diseases within 24 hours of a seizure, without comorbidities leading to death, and not accidental death or status epilepticus.
What are the risk factors for sudden death from epilepsy?
Generalized tonic-clonic seizures and their frequency.
Generalized tonic-clonic seizures and their frequency are major risk factors for sudden epileptic death. According to statistics, if a patient has generalized tonic-clonic seizures 3 or more seizures per year, the risk of sudden epileptic death increases by 15 times. Although generalized tonic-clonic seizures do not directly cause sudden epileptic death, there is a causal relationship between the two.
In addition, the risk of sudden epilepsy death is also related to the course of epilepsy, with the average duration of epilepsy in most cases of sudden epilepsy death being 15 to 20 years, and a long duration of illness is a risk factor for sudden epilepsy death. The frequency of seizures is also an important risk factor for sudden death from epilepsy, which is more than 12 seizures per year and is considered a high risk factor for sudden death from epilepsy, with more than 12 seizures per year.
Sudden epileptic death often occurs in patients with chronic, severe epilepsy, and is usually accompanied by neurological impairment, which suggests that sudden epileptic death is the result of a combination of long-term seizures and acute seizures.
Respiratory depression. Hypoxemia is common in seizures, suggesting respiratory depression as a possible cause of sudden death from epilepsy. Patients with epilepsy have an increased rate of sudden death from nocturnal seizures due to the lack of monitoring at night and post-seizure respiratory depression, most of whom have a history of nocturnal seizures, and the risk of sudden death in patients with nocturnal seizures will increase39 times.
Fatal arrhythmias.
Sudden death in ordinary people is often associated with arrhythmia, so it is theoretically believed that fatal arrhythmia may be one of the mechanisms of sudden death in epilepsy. Sinus tachycardia, bradycardia, and cardiac arrest may occur during seizures, and slowing of heart rate is more common in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and is more likely to occur at night.
Anti-epileptic drugs and mental retardation.
Antiepileptic drug concentrations not reaching the ** level, multi-drug combination**, frequent dressing changes, etc. are all related risk factors for sudden epileptic death, and some antiepileptic drugs themselves will increase the risk of sudden epileptic death. Mental retardation is often accompanied by epilepsy, and mental retardation is closely related to severe seizures and is often considered a marker of refractory epilepsy. Sudden death from epilepsy occurs in 5% to 45% of patients with mental retardation, and mental retardation is an important risk factor for sudden death from epilepsy.
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Finally, southwest brain experts said that preventing sudden death from epilepsy requires the joint efforts of doctors, epilepsy patients and their families. Through active communication with epilepsy patients and their families, doctors inform the risks associated with sudden death of epilepsy to achieve effective prevention, and what patients and their families need to do is to choose formal medical institutions, actively ** epilepsy, enhance ** beliefs, reduce anxiety, and maintain good life Xi.