This March 26 marks the purple day to raise awareness of this disease. These patients can have a very big stigma because they are often considered that they cannot lead a normal life like the rest of the people who do not live that reality.
“Many times at the level of our work or at the school level and many times in the family, people with epilepsy suffer discrimination because they think that at any moment they can have an event that can destabilize the situation,” said Dr. Marco Casartelli, head of the Department of neurology.
However, he indicated that a patient with epilepsy who has good treatment and follow-up can go to school and can have normal learning and performance, socialize with peers, play sports and do activities like everyone else.
He argued that having a full, fully functional and useful life is possible. For this, it is important to understand that the adequate treatment of epilepsy, the hygienic measures around it and family and social support can make this affectation have a minimal impact on people.
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological syndrome that manifests itself with recurrent seizures. It can occur due to a genetic cause; also structural causes including acquired disorders such as stroke, trauma, and infection.
Sometimes the cause cannot be defined and the main symptom is a seizure.
The professional recommended, in case of seeing a person convulsing, they should be turned on their side, not trying to open their mouth or introduce objects, and call the Emergency Department.
The entrance Epilepsy: frequent pathology that affects up to 1% of the population was first published in diary TODAY.
