In principle, the diet of epileptic patients is the same as that of ordinary people. Try to diversify food and eat more nutritious and digestible foods, such as pasta, beans, lean meat, eggs, fish and milk. Especially beans, fresh vegetables, fruits and dairy products, which are rich in protein and phospholipids, help to restore brain function and reduce the number of seizures. Eat less thick food and eat less goose and mutton; For some irritating foods, such as peppers, onions, garlic, etc., it is better to eat less, otherwise, it is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. In addition, we should pay attention to diet and overcome the habits of partial eclipse, pica, overeating and hunger, especially for children. Overeating often induces seizures.
You can eat more acidic food at ordinary times. Scientific research shows that food has a certain influence on primary epilepsy, alkaline food can induce epilepsy, and acidic food can inhibit epileptic seizures (referring to primary epilepsy). Therefore, patients should eat more acidic foods, such as peanuts, walnuts, pork, beef, fish, shrimp, eggs and so on. However, it is ineffective to treat secondary epilepsy with acidic food, and the primary disease must be actively treated to reduce or avoid the seizure of epilepsy.
Control water and salt intake. Too much water in the body is prone to epilepsy. Why? In recent years, medical research believes that seizures start from the brain center-diencephalon, and stimulating diencephalon can cause seizures. The diencephalon is the regulating center of water and liquid in human body. A large amount of liquid food and salt enter the body, which will increase the burden on the diencephalon and lead to seizures. Therefore, patients with epilepsy should try to drink less water and salt, including fruit juice, cola, watermelon, pickles, salted fish and bacon.
Alcohol and tobacco can increase nerve excitability and induce seizures. Therefore, patients with epilepsy should absolutely prohibit drinking and limit the intake of irritating substances such as cigarettes, tea and coffee, so as not to affect the recovery of the disease. There are many clinical lessons in inducing or aggravating epileptic seizures due to drinking or ingesting other irritating substances, which should be taken as a warning.
Epilepsy is difficult to treat. It is most important to choose a good doctor, make a correct diagnosis and treat it reasonably. Don't put it off again. Don't go to the doctor just because you are sick, you don't need to bear a heavy burden. It is very important to make a decisive decision and regain health and happiness. The prevention and treatment of epilepsy should follow the following principles: integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine prevention and treatment, using a comprehensive treatment program. Treatment methods should vary from person to person, and the treatment plan should be recognized by patients and their families. Only in this way can patients cooperate with doctors to treat diseases.
Eat more acid and less salt.
Acidic food provides rich vitamin C and vitamin B _ 6 for human body, which is beneficial to the synthesis of neurotransmitters, thus making up for the lack of some neurotransmitters in epileptic patients, especially in patients with primary epilepsy, and reducing the seizures.
Acidic foods in traditional foods include peanuts, walnuts, pork, beef, chickens, ducks and geese, fish, shrimp and eggs. In addition, some studies show that the seizure of epilepsy is caused by excessive discharge of nerves, and when the human body ingests excessive salt in a short time, high concentration of sodium salt will cause excessive discharge of neurons, thus inducing epilepsy, so the regimen of "less salt and more vinegar" that people often say is still applicable to epilepsy patients.
Eat more beans and grains.
Studies have shown that beans and cereals (such as soybeans, lentils, wheat, etc. ) are rich in trace element manganese, and eating more can supplement the insufficient intake of manganese in epileptic patients. Another study shows that there is a certain amount of phosphatase in normal brain cells, but the brain of epileptic patients is seriously short of this enzyme, and bean sprouts are rich in nitrophosphatase, so eating bean sprouts can supplement the lack of phosphatase and alleviate the condition.
Control drinking water
Some scholars believe: "diencephalon is the center of body fluid regulation, and a large amount of liquid entering the body will increase the burden of diencephalon, thus inducing epilepsy." Moreover, some epileptic patients often have a sudden attack in the process of holding their urine, which may be because the bladder is overfilled after drinking too much water, which produces strong electric pulses and induces abnormal discharge of neurons.
Epilepsy is a chronic brain syndrome, which is characterized by transient central nervous system dysfunction caused by abnormal discharge of neurons in the brain.
Because it is a chronic syndrome, patients should not stop taking medicine, change medicine or increase or decrease dosage during the treatment, so as not to aggravate the condition. Antiepileptic drugs can affect the digestive system, leading to nutritional deficiency or metabolic disorder, such as vitamin K, vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin D, calcium and magnesium. Fresh vegetables, soybean oil and egg yolk contain a lot of vitamin K; Vitamin D, calcium and magnesium are related to the growth of bones and teeth, and calcium deficiency is easy to aggravate the attack, so adequate vitamin D, calcium and magnesium should be supplemented in childhood. Fish, eggs, animal livers, beef and green vegetables all contain folic acid. Rice, wheat bran, beef liver and fish contain a lot of vitamin B6.
Epilepsy patients should not be too hungry or overeating. After eating a lot of sweets at a time, a lot of sugar will enter the blood, which will stimulate the pancreas to secrete too much insulin and accelerate the metabolism of glucose. The blood sugar level will be high first and then low, which will induce epilepsy. Hunger can lower blood sugar, which often induces epilepsy; Overeating and drinking water will make the stomach overstretched and easily induce epilepsy. When patients have abdominal distension and vomiting, they should be supplemented with water and electrolyte in time after a large amount of fluid loss to maintain the balance of water and electrolyte and avoid inducing epilepsy.
Drinks, such as tea, coffee, cola, etc. , containing more or less central excitatory substances, reducing anti-epileptic ability and inducing epilepsy. So pay attention to stimulating drinks, and be moderate.
Nicotine in cigarettes has obvious influence on the relaxation and contraction of brain and blood vessels, and can also induce epilepsy, so epileptic patients can't smoke. There is an obvious relationship between alcohol and seizures, and long-term heavy drinking can directly produce alcoholic epilepsy.
All epilepsy can be treated with drugs. In fact, 80% patients will stop getting sick after taking the medicine. However, due to the side effects of some drugs, more and more doctors advocate the combination of diet and drug treatment to control diseases.
Some studies have shown that in some rare cases, the lack of vitamin B6 and vitamin D can promote seizures. Vitamin B6 exists in meat, whole grains and beans; Vitamin D exists in oily fish and some animal products, especially cheese and milk with added nutrients. Patients can only take vitamin supplements under the guidance of a doctor.
Some minerals are helpful to some patients, magnesium; Zinc and calcium help some people to prevent convulsions.
Preliminary evidence shows that congenital epilepsy may be related to the lack of manganese in the mother's diet during pregnancy, but this statement still caused a lot of controversy. The main sources of manganese are rice, whole wheat bread, malt, buckwheat, Lima beans, nuts, malt extract, sardines, blackberries, figs and pineapples.
In a few cases, malnutrition and hypoglycemia are related to seizures. Therefore, patients should eat regularly and pay attention to nutritional balance in order to maintain normal blood sugar levels.
Some unconventional doctors believe that mixing salad and raw fruit can reduce the frequency and degree of illness.
Excessive drinking will accelerate the onset of people who are prone to this disease. Evening primrose oil can also cause some people to get sick, so it is best to avoid using it.
Daily Diet Conditioning of Epilepsy Patients
1. Epilepsy patients should appropriately limit carbohydrate intake. Epilepsy patients need heat energy and protein just like normal people, but they don't need too much carbohydrate, so it's advisable not to exceed 300 grams per day. Appropriately increase the supply of fat, which should account for about 60% of the total calories; Limited drinking water, no more than1000 ml per day; Salt does not exceed 3 grams per day; Adequate supply of vitamins and minerals, especially elements such as iron and calcium; It is forbidden to eat sugary food and irritating food.
2. Patients with epilepsy should limit their potassium intake. Patients with epilepsy caused by brain trauma and patients who take sedatives for a long time are prone to dehydration, anemia, leukopenia and malnutrition. In severe cases, electrolyte metabolism disorder (hyperkalemia) may occur. When the diet contains too much potassium, it will increase the blood potassium content of patients, so the daily potassium intake of epileptic patients should not exceed 3 grams.
Foods with low potassium content include Chinese cabbage, radish, white radish, celery, pumpkin, tomato, eggplant, onion, cucumber, wax gourd, loofah, zucchini, pear, apple, grape and pineapple.
3. Patients with epilepsy should increase their intake of magnesium. Epilepsy patients often lack magnesium, especially those who need long-term drug treatment. For example, taking phenytoin sodium for a long time is easy to cause osteoporosis. Besides giving a high calcium diet, attention should also be paid to magnesium intake. The adult human body contains 20-25g of magnesium, about half of which is concentrated in the middle skeleton, and the magnesium in the skeleton cannot be supplied to the body cells. If magnesium is deficient, it will not only affect the osteogenesis of bones, but also cause muscle trembling and mental tension.
Foods rich in magnesium include millet, corn, adzuki beans, soybeans, dried tofu, vegetables, celery, beef liver, chicken and so on. Adult men need 350 milligrams a day to maintain the balance of magnesium.
4. Epilepsy patients should not eat more foods with high zinc content. The blood zinc concentration of epileptic patients was measured, and it was found that the average blood zinc content of almost all epileptic patients was significantly higher than that of normal people. After long-term use of antiepileptic drugs, the blood zinc concentration of patients decreased significantly compared with that before treatment, and some even showed some symptoms of zinc deficiency. This shows that the occurrence of epilepsy is closely related to the increase of zinc content in the body, especially in the brain. Experts believe that antiepileptic drugs or other metabolites can effectively react with zinc ions and reduce the blood zinc concentration of epileptic patients, thus controlling epileptic seizures. Therefore, in addition to paying attention to drug treatment, epileptic patients should try to eat less or not to eat zinc-rich foods in their daily lives.
5. Patients with epilepsy should avoid eating food that induces epilepsy. Mutton, dog meat, rooster, wild duck, carp and other "hair" should not be eaten more; Spirits, strong tea and coffee should be absolutely forbidden; Spicy condiments such as pepper, pepper, mustard, green onion and garlic should also be properly limited.
Diet regulation of epileptic patients during seizure
Severe seizures or frequent seizures will increase nerve excitability and easily lead to alkalosis or hypocalcemia. Therefore, foods rich in zinc and calcium should be supplemented. Calcium can calm the central nervous system and inhibit the excitability of nerve cells. Foods rich in calcium include celery, potherb mustard, rape, small white tea, shepherd's purse, pickled mustard tuber, red fruit, dried jujube, fried almond, fried pumpkin seed, hazelnut, pig kidney, milk, cheese, salted duck egg, egg yolk, yellow croaker, snail, clam, sea cucumber, shrimp skin, sesame sauce and so on.
Diet conditioning of epileptic patients during treatment
The diet of epileptic patients during treatment can refer to the general diet arrangement. But on this basis, we should reduce carbohydrates, increase fat and limit water. Available foods are: millet, sesame, wheat, jujube, black beans, kidney beans, walnuts, pig hearts, honey, yam, turtle shell, eggs, vegetables, mung beans, carrots and peas.
Nutritional recipes for epilepsy patients
Yangnaoqizi decoction
[Ingredients] Sheep brain 1 Yes, 30g of Lycium barbarum, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate.
[Production] Add water and seasoning to the two flavors, stew them with slow fire until cooked, and eat them all at once.
【 Efficacy 】 Treating epilepsy, blood deficiency, headache and dizziness.