EPILEPSY CAN BE TREATED WITH MEDICATION
“It is a pity that so many myths about epilepsy have
persisted for so long,” he said. “The fact is that epilepsy and insanity can’t
be linked.”K.K. Turel, president of the Neurological Society of India, stressed
that patients of epilepsy needed to be very careful about their medication.“Medicines
can control epilepsy in 80 percent of the patients,” he said. “If epilepsy is
controlled, one can lead a normal life.”He said doctors opted for surgery only
when epilepsy persisted despite taking two to three medicines.“Between medicines
and surgery, 95 percent of all patients get relief,” he said.A useful booklet
given away on the occasion listed some of the more famous patients of epilepsy:
Alfred Nobel, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Agatha Christie, Aristotle,
Charles Dickens and Isaac Newton.
Prof.
John Kurakar
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