Hu Jie, chief physician of neurosurgery at Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, replied: This is also a classic question, because there are indeed many epilepsy patients in China, and some patients' families have no idea about the treatment of epilepsy. There is only one concept in his mind: taking medicine.

Limitations of drug therapy

Some epilepsy, at least 30% of epilepsy is difficult to control by drugs, because studies have confirmed that the first drug can control 47% of patients without seizures. When you change the second medicine, only 13% patients have no seizures. At the third dressing change, only 1% patients did not have an attack.

Surgical therapy

If the dosage is sufficient after regular medication, the course of treatment is sufficient, and the drug selection is correct, when the two drugs are still not satisfactorily controlled, it is necessary to consider whether to use drugs for treatment. Because the consequences of repeated attacks, especially children, may lead to mental retardation. I suggest you come to our surgery, and we will do some tests to evaluate whether you can have surgery.