The epilepsy is a chronic illness and often hard the whole life, in some cases the need for medicines can diminish and even eliminate with the time. In other cases that are controlled very well and do not suffer convulsions in any more than four years, it is possible that it is feasible to reduce or to suspend the medicines.
The mortality or the permanent cerebral damage because of the convulsions is slightly frequent but it can happen:
- If the convulsion is prolonged or if two or more convulsions present in a short period - "the epileptic state" to themselves.
- Long absence of respiration and death of the textile cerebral (infarction) for lack of oxygen (isquemia).
Other risk factors are the possible appearance of convulsive crises when the patient is leading a car ó working with dangerous machinery. By it certain activities must be restricted in persons with convulsive crises badly controlled.
The light epilepsies with slightly frequent crises, on the other hand, to affect very little the quality of life, by what the work, the study and other activities must not be restricted.
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