What Is Spontaneous Remission?

Spontaneous relief refers to the phenomenon that the patient's symptoms improve without the intervention of professional treatment during psychological treatment.

The term spontaneous relief has long been debated in various psychological parties. Psychologists led by Eysenck believe that professional psychotherapy will not produce better results than no treatment. However, most researchers disagree with this view, saying that it cannot be simply understood that patients rely on themselves to make their symptoms improve naturally. Although many patients have not received formal psychological treatment, they have received great help from friends, relatives, teachers, and colleagues. This informal intervention may be the reason for their symptoms to improve. Therefore, its essence needs to be further studied. "

Some conditions can be resolved spontaneously or less easily, as follows:

1. Alzheimer's disease. It has been mixed with Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is a primary degenerative disease of the central nervous system. The main clinical phase is dementia syndrome. The course of the disease shows continuous progress, and usually died 2 to 8 years after onset. There is generally no spontaneous remission. There is currently no specific treatment for this disease. Life care and nursing are extremely important to keep them in contact with the environment to slow down the process of their mental decline. For mental symptoms, symptomatic treatment can be used, paying attention to low-dose medication. At the same time, drugs can be given to promote brain metabolism and dilate blood vessels in the brain.

2. Multiple Tourette Syndrome. This is an onset

   The prognosis of epilepsy is related to many factors such as the type of attack, the cause of the attack, the frequency of the attack, whether the treatment is timely and reasonable, and the age of onset. Some experts said that there is still a part of epilepsy that can be relieved spontaneously. Factors affecting the spontaneous remission of epilepsy are:

   1. Types of seizures: The remission rate of generalized tonic-clonic seizures and simple absence seizures is high, and the remission rate of compound seizures is low.

   2. Age of onset: Those who develop disease before 10 years of age have the highest rate of spontaneous remission, but those who develop disease before 1 year of age are significantly lower than those in the age group of 1 to 9 years.

   3. Primary or secondary: The spontaneous remission rate of primary epilepsy is higher than that of secondary.

   4. Exogenous etiology: Patients without exogenous etiology and family history of epilepsy have high spontaneous remission rate.
   5. Frequency of seizures: The lower the frequency of seizures, the better the prognosis. Those who have seizures less than once a month have a high rate of spontaneous remission, with the exception of absence seizures.

   6. Duration of onset: The shorter the duration of disease, the higher the rate of spontaneous remission.
   7, neuropsychiatric defects: those without this defect have a high rate of spontaneous remission.

   The above seven points introduce the key factors for the prognosis of epilepsy. In addition, the prognosis research of epilepsy and the intervention treatment of newly diagnosed patients have basically changed the pessimistic understanding of the prognosis of epilepsy.