What would you do if you ran into a man when they want to ride public transportation, but he fell and suffered a seizure with foaming mouth? When examined by a doctor, he not only had seizures but also experience delusions and hallucinations are very severe. How do you respond?
Do not panic easily, because it could be this man not only have one chronic disease, but more than that.
Previous studies said that schizophrenia and epilepsy are vulnerable and may be caused by genetic, environmental, or even related to the nervous system.
Before discussing further, the definition of Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness characterized by delusions, hallucinations, difficulty to behave normally in social situations, and also difficult to have normal emotional responses. Other symptoms experienced by patients with schizophrenia is difficult to concentrate, difficulty in sleeping, feeling jittery and anxious often, and too hard to think and express it clearly. Dangerous is, schizophrenia patients also frequently heard voices which told them to hurt themselves or loved ones.
Epilepsy is a neurological disease that can cause a person to have seizures over and over and over. Episodes of seizures can cause attention and behavior can be changed. Symptoms of epilepsy vary greatly, ranging from seizures to change emotions. A common cause is stroke epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease, and other causes related to the brain, such as brain injury, brain tumors, and others.
Research in Taiwan has found that schizophrenia is very closely related to mental illness epilepsy. This research has been published in the journal Epilepsia, a collection of articles issued by the ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy). The article said that patients with schizophrenia are able epileptic 6-fold, whereas people with epilepsy are able also suffers from schizophrenia nearly 8-fold.
The study drew on data 5195 schizophrenia patients and 11,527 patients are diagnosed with epilepsy for 9 years back. The data is taken from the Taiwan National Health Insurance database and was led by researchers from China Medical University. In addition, patients were also compared by gender and similar age in normal people, both undiagnosed disease.
The results of the studies suggest that patients with schizophrenia are more prone to suffer from epilepsy than those who do not suffer from schizophrenia. This research also tells us that the odds of patients suffering from epilepsy to schizophrenia was 6.99/1000 person per year, compared to people who do not suffer from schizophrenia at all (19/01/1000).
Conversely, people who suffer from epilepsy are also more likely to suffer from schizophrenia as well as people who do not have epilepsy. Statistics show opportunities epileptic who suffers from schizophrenia as 3.53/1000 person per year, compared to people who do not suffer from epilepsy as 0.46/1000 person per year.
In addition to the strength of the relationship of schizophrenia and epilepsy, epilepsy patients suffer more male than female patients skizforenia.
A professor from the China Medical University, Dr. I-Ching Chou, said his research shows a strong relationship between the two diseases. He also suggested to conduct research on these two diseases is further related to the pathological mechanisms.
When you meet with people who have symptoms that exposed above, do not immediately label that they are suffering from schizophrenia or epilepsy, because it could be among those people there are individuals who experience both.
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