Health care of epilepsy: Can the epilepsy patient drive

Health care of epilepsy: Can the epilepsy patient drive
In fact the epilepsy patient is a all right driver, but the expert introduces, patient had better wait for and treat and finish driving the epilepsy, more secure to the security like this. Had illness coming on suddenly because the epilepsy generally has no omen, patient's consciousness was lost at the time of the onset, so, its stealthy " killer " that has already become the traffic accident Expert: The epilepsy patient already admitted as the driving license mustn't have idea of leaving things to chance, should proceed from oneself, family and security of the society, give up driving the motor vehicle conscientiously and voluntarily, drive again after curing the epilepsyZhang Jian in Dongguan suffers from epileptics, he breaks out in unexpected epilepsy while driving at the end of last month, the cramp of limbs, consciousness is lost, the car dashes into the wayside ditch, causes one's own right upper limbs to fracture, the vehicle damages, does not fortunately have other casualties. The reporter knows in the interview, the case like Zhang Jian is not a individual case, the report regarding the epilepsy patient had illness coming on, caused the traffic accident suddenly while driving of our country is of common occurrence, the epilepsy patient has already become stealth of the traffic accident of the road " The killer " . PLA Guangzhou 458 hospital nerve head of the department of surgery Professor Tang YunLins says, the epilepsy patient is unable to control one's own behavior at all when the disease is sent, so, the epilepsy patient already admitted as the driving license mustn't have idea of leaving things to chance, should proceed from oneself, family and security of the society, give up driving the motor vehicle conscientiously and voluntarily, drive again after curing the epilepsy.Phenomenon The epilepsy patient can get the driving license tooThe epilepsy (commonly called as sheep insane wind) It is a kind of nervous system breaking out disease, the morbidity is about 7%. The statistics show, the total number of person of national epileptics patient is 8 million, increase the of ill number of people 350,000 newly every year. In recent years, its morbidity has trend obviously increased.The reporter knows in the interview, with the improvement of people's living standard, the quantity of the motor vehicle is increasing constantly, the increasingly many person adds to the team which applies to get the driving license. Among them, it is epilepsy patients to be much.It is reported, epileptics is as the taboo of applying to get the driving license of motor vehicle, clear regulation and principle are required. Ministry of Public Security release " the the intersection of motor vehicle and the intersection of driving license and apply to get and regulation for use " revise, define regulation, the person with epileptics can not apply for the driving license of motor vehicle. But because the epilepsy is like normal people when not having illness coming on, it is very difficult to find in the regular physical examination, so long as it is qualified to get the driving license to drive and do in the test, so, a lot of epilepsy patients " fish in troubled waters " ,Receive the driving license smoothly. According to an item of statistics which 458 hospitals in Guangzhou of PLA do recently, in 316 adult's epileptics patients that have accepted in the past two years for medical treatment, 31 people have driving licenses, 12 people are still full-time drivers.Onset Patient's consciousness is totally lostBut the reality is, the uncertainty having illness coming on because of the epilepsy patient, often give and drive and bury the great potential safety hazard, cause the emergence of the great traffic accident. According to World Health Organization (WHO) The newest statistical data reveals: The whole world is up to 1,270,000 people and die in the traffic accident every year, there was more wounded or disabled number of people, the reason which presented the traffic accident was numerous, it is one of the reasons that the epilepsy patient drives, the report regarding a patient had illness coming on, caused the traffic accident suddenly while driving in epilepsy of our country is of common occurrence.Tang YunLin introduces, because the epilepsy generally has no omen while having illness coming on, duration is long (generally 3~5 minutes) ,Patient's consciousness is totally lost at the time of the onset, four limbs can't help twitching, so, it is very dangerous that the epilepsy patient drives the vehicle. Tang YunLin proposes, the epilepsy patient already admitted as the driving license mustn't have idea of leaving things to chance, should proceed from oneself, family and security of the society, give up driving the motor vehicle conscientiously and voluntarily, drive after curing epileptics.Treat Have not broken out and can drive for three years in successionSo,How should epileptics treat'tang YunLin introduces, epileptics is there is a epilepsy cooking stove that exists in the brain, and discharge regularly. Need, make the intersection of head and CT or MRI, check, think in the cranium revealing the positive focus generally, such as tumour, blood vessel deformity, parasite,etc.. Need, make digitized the intersection of video and the intersection of brain and electricity, check at the same time, for have focus in the obvious cranium or have the intersection of epilepsy and patient that locality discharge, can choose the surgical treatment; To the epilepsy patient fit for surgery treatment, should take and resist epilepsy medicine for a long time strictly, regularly. Has only had no persons who have broken out of epilepsy for three years in succession, drive and have security. (Zhang QingMei) (Medical advice PLA Guangzhou 458 hospital nerve head of the department of surgery Professor Tang YunLins)The editor recommends:Which are the risk factor of the epilepsy?
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