Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological disorder that affects 1 in every 200 people in the community. It is estimated that in India, there are over five million people with epilepsy and one million with medically refractory epilepsy. There are nearly five hundred thousand people with focal epilepsies, and in a majority of them, surgery cures or controls epilepsy.
What is Epilepsy?
Epilepsy is the tendency to have repeated spontaneous seizures (fits/convulsions). Seizures are episodes of disturbed brain electrical activity that cause changes in attention or behaviour.
What are the different types of fits?
The normal brain continuously has electrical currents in a controlled manner. Fits or seizures occur because of brief excessive currents in the brain. The symptoms of a seizure vary depending on the part of the brain that has abnormal current. Accordingly,
there are different types of fits or seizures.
- Grand Mal Seizure
- Partial Seizures
- Simple Partial Seizure
- Complex Partial Seizure
What causes Epilepsy?
Epilepsy may occur due to
- Tumour
- Brain stroke
- Head injury due to an accident
- Brain damage at the time of birth
- Abnormalities in the function of the neurons without any brain damage
Kokilaben Hospital has established a Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Programme for the evaluation of people with epilepsy to provide the best medical and surgical management. Kokilaben Hospital is the first and only centre in Western India that provides state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities for epilepsy evaluation under one umbrella.
The aim of the team is to create awareness and remove fears about epilepsy in the community through periodic awareness programmes for the public.
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