“Slept epilepsy” occurs about one-third of epilepsy. Sleep epilepsy is often diagnosed late or misdiagnosed as another sleep disorder because of its less pronounced seizure symptoms. But if you leave it alone, it can cause not only sleep but also daytime seizures. Explains symptoms that can easily occur in sleep epilepsy, drug treatment with antiepileptic drugs, and prevention methods.
Epileptic prevalence is about 1% of the population.
According to “The Epilepsy Dictionary” compiled by the World Health Organization, epilepsy is defined as “a chronic brain disease characterized by repetitive seizures caused by excessive firing of brain neurons, accompanied by a wide variety of clinical symptoms and laboratory findings.”
The prevalence of epilepsy is estimated to be about 1% of the population, and there are about one million epileptic patients nationwide. Celebrities include Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire and Napoleon Bonaparte of France.
Sleeping epileptic.
“Sleep epilepsy” is also called “sleep-related epilepsy.” More than 70% of seizures occur during sleep as ‘sleep-related epilepsy’, and ‘pure sleep epilepsy’ in which all seizures occur during sleep is also known (2005 International Classification of Sleep Disorders). Pure sleep epilepsy, which occurs only during sleep, accounts for about half of all sleep epilepsy.
Some epileptics have seizures when they wake up, but in general this is not included in sleep epilepsy.
As the onset of epilepsy increases, the time of seizure changes. If you have epileptic seizures only during your wake-up, you are more likely to have epileptic seizures during sleep. Also, if you only have sleep epilepsy, if the treatment does not go well, you can easily have epileptic seizures all day.
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