How Is a Secondary Infection Treated?
Secondary is based on whether the etiology is known, and the etiology of the disease is divided into two types: primary and secondary. The former refers to a class with unknown etiology; the latter has obvious etiology.
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- Secondary is based on whether the etiology is known, and the etiology of the disease is divided into two types: primary and secondary. The former refers to a class with unknown etiology; the latter has obvious etiology.
- For example, the etiology of epilepsy has not been fully understood. Historically, the etiology has been classified into two types: primary and secondary. The former refers to a class of unknown etiology, also known as primary epilepsy, idiopathic epilepsy, hereditary epilepsy, cryptogenic epilepsy or true epilepsy, etc .; the latter has obvious etiology, also known as secondary or symptomatic epilepsy.
- The so-called secondary epilepsy refers to epilepsy secondary to other diseases (such as various brain diseases or metabolic abnormalities), that is, epilepsy caused by other diseases, also known as "symptomatic epilepsy". Like "primary epilepsy", "secondary epilepsy" has its own characteristics. Most of the onset occurs after young adults, and the seizure types are mostly localized seizures and psychomotor epilepsy. It is not easy to control antiepileptic drugs before the cause is removed.
- There are many diseases that cause this kind of epilepsy, mainly divided into the following two categories: one is the brain disease, various encephalopathy, such as cerebrovascular disease, craniocerebral injury, encephalitis, meningitis, hydrocephalus, brain abscess, inflammation Granuloma, intracranial tumors, cerebral parasites, traumatic brain trauma, demyelinating disease, abnormal brain development, cerebral atrophy, sequelae of craniocerebral surgery, local scars, and degenerative diseases of the brain can cause epilepsy; : Such as: hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, asphyxia, shock, eclampsia, uremia, diabetes, cardiogenic convulsion, and metal, drug poisoning, etc. Many central nervous system or systemic diseases cause epilepsy. Common causes of secondary epilepsy are birth trauma, intracranial infection, abnormal cerebral circulation, etc., such as encephalitis sequelae, febrile convulsions in children, etc., can cause epilepsy.