{"id":1669,"date":"2018-12-12T04:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T04:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2023-04-20T06:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:46:15","slug":"lifestyle-changes-which-epileptics-should-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/neurology\/lifestyle-changes-which-epileptics-should-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle Changes Which Epileptics Should Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your first experience of a seizure can be traumatic. And if you get diagnosed with epilepsy, it can take a while to come to terms with the ramifications of living with the illness. There is no known cure for epilepsy and one has to learn how to manage life around the illness. One of the biggest differences about managing epilepsy, which is different from managing other illnesses, is the loss of physical and mental control, which can be frightening. A person with epilepsy has to make lifestyle changes to accommodate that.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Factors that trigger epilepsy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the ways that you can control the disease is to figure out what triggers a seizure. Though, there may not be a specific cause, in time, you will learn to avoid some triggers like:-<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A sleepless night<\/li>\n<li>Certain types of food<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol\/Smoking\/drugs<\/li>\n<li>Flashing lights<\/li>\n<li>Vivid colours<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/good-living\/physical-symptoms-of-stress\/\">Stress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/good-living\/self-analysis\/\"><strong>Do you need to modify your lifestyle? Take this Quiz to find out.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\nSmall lifestyle changes you can do to avoid a seizure<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Create a good sleep pattern<\/strong> \u2013 Sleeping on time, waking up on time and having a good number of hours of sleep can calm you and reduce a trigger.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Avoid alcohol<\/strong> \u2013 There are two reasons to avoid alcohol if you\u2019re an epileptic. One is, alcohol can be a trigger in itself, and secondly, anti-epileptic drugs cannot be mixed with alcohol.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manage medication<\/strong> \u2013 If you fall sick with some other illness, make sure that you tell the consulting doctor that you are an epileptic. Certain medications react badly with anti-epileptic medication.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maintain a diary<\/strong> \u2013 Write down your daily routine so that you can try and figure what you did on the day you had a seizure. This will help you narrow down triggers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ask for help<\/strong> \u2013 Develop a good support system so that the people around you are aware of your condition and know how to help you if you have a seizure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Avoid stressful situations<\/strong> \u2013 Make your life as uncomplicated and calm as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Have regular check-ups<\/strong> \u2013 You need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/Centers-of-Excellence-and-Specialties\/Neurology-and-Neuroscience-Doctors\/Chennai\">Neurology Specialist in Chennai<\/a> regularly\u00a0to make sure that you have the correct dosage of your anti-epileptic medication. Another reason to be regular about consulting with your doctor is that there are constantly new kinds of medication coming into the market to help manage seizures and your doctors may be able to update you on a better drug to manage your epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli &#8211; 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru &#8211; 080 6801 6801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your first experience of a seizure can be traumatic. And if you get diagnosed with epilepsy, it can take a while to come to terms with the ramifications of living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neurology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}