Kung fu star Bruce Lee's death have been numerous doubts, in recent years has added a new "epilepsy sudden death," one said. This rare hazardous situation increasingly recognized medical community, but its causes and treatment mechanism is unclear. Brazil, a long-term follow-up study found that the family has pets child seems not easy to sudden death caused controversy in academia. Medical experts believe that aggressive treatment of epilepsy, to avoid repeated convulsions, may reduce the risk of sudden death in patients with epilepsy.
Mystery death: death suspected seizures performance
July 20, 1973 in the evening, take a generation of kung fu star Bruce Lee died suddenly in headache medication Equagesic actress Betty Ting's home, only 32 years old. At that time, designate a senior British police forensic expert Professor Donald Bruce Lee Teal autopsy, cause of death was obtained "drug allergy induced brain edema", has since become an official conclusion. However, the death of Bruce Lee opinions, the public has the "over-indulgence", "brain cancer", "herbal poisoning", "Wild killings" and other claims, and gradually became a "mystery."
In 2006, Chicago forensic expert Dr. James Feierjinsi studied Bruce Lee's autopsy report later that the official conclusion is wrong, it is a real cause of death in 1995 was only the medical profession recognized rare diseases - epilepsy Sudden Death syndrome. He believes that Bruce Lee was the lack of sleep, too much stress, causing epilepsy died suddenly. The most important facts to support the claim that Lee Si Qianzeng had suspected ventilation performance: at 17:00 on May 10th 1973, in the studio when Bruce Lee movie "Enter the Dragon" dubbing sudden vomiting, cramps and headaches, into a semi-coma state, once life-threatening breathing difficulties, was admitted to Baptist hospital after gradually wake up. Bruce Lee said afterwards: "I was in the studio collapsed, they do not know anything." Statistics show that the date of the death of Bruce Lee also had a similar performance.
International League Against Epilepsy: There is one-thousandth of sudden death in patients each year
Guangdong Armed Police Corps Hospital of Neurology, director Tian Xiguang said that epilepsy is a brain neurons sudden abnormal discharge, resulting in a chronic disease of transient cerebral dysfunction. Generally, there are two seizures symptoms:
First, the generalized absence seizures. Patients showed stare stare somewhere, may be associated with eye movements up there for 5 to 15 seconds of the loss of consciousness. After the seizure ends, the patient has no memory of this experience. Generalized absence seizures most often occur in children and adolescence disappeared adults less frequent.
Second, tonic-clonic seizures. After the patient is usually uttered a short cries (not because of the pain) fell to the ground, accompanied by muscle rigidity, spastic convulsions, may be associated with urinary incontinence, consciousness can slow recovery.
Sudden death in patients with epilepsy, but some people are not in a long time after the death of seizures, and death ruled out by injury, fall into the water drowning, etc., for an autopsy has not found poisoned or anatomical abnormalities of structure, known as " epilepsy sudden death. " A survey shows that epilepsy sudden death accounts for about 8% to 17% of deaths in patients with epilepsy, in which children and young adults at higher risk patients. According to data of the International League Against Epilepsy, epilepsy each year thousandth of sudden death occurs. Many people (including many epilepsy patients themselves) do not know of such serious complications may be some neurologists did not advise patients at risk of sudden death, fear and anxiety makes them uneasy.
At present, the medical profession mechanisms of sudden death in epilepsy has not been studied well, presumably reasons: seizures resulted in apnea, arrhythmias, nerve disorders. Sudden death in epilepsy patients with epilepsy Rongyifasheng are male, while the small age, serious illness, prescription medication treatment fails, sleep hair author, etc.
Academic Debate: cats or dogs can reduce sudden death in epilepsy?
Tian Xiguang said recurrent seizures great harm, the longer the duration the more significant impact. Patients seizures, loss of consciousness can cause the body falls, limbs twitch can cause abrasions, bruising, psychosis time and may self-injury or assault. In addition, can also lead to seizures in patients with apnea, edema causes brain tissue hypoxia, leading to dysfunction. Frequency discharge of brain cells can also cause direct damage to the brain, the passage of time can lead to memory loss and reduced intelligence. Seizures can also bring patients fear, low self-esteem and other negative psychological, seriously affecting the life.
Therefore, the need for aggressive treatment of epilepsy. Tian Xiguang said epilepsy generally adopt drug treatment, patients must adhere to more than two years of medication, should not half-way stop, about 80% of the patients were able to control the 20% of patients require surgery, do gamma saber, cerebral vascular embolization and other eliminate in the diet therapy, patients should eat more beans and cereals food, help repair brain cells.
For epilepsy, sudden death, the current approach to the medical profession is not much, only to strengthen patient care. Brazil controlled study of 10-year follow-up of 1092 children with epilepsy, epilepsy sudden death found 11 children living at home are not pets, house pets and children with epilepsy was not a sudden death case occurred. Dr. Hal Herzog, professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, said the current seizure of unexplained sudden death, this study did very sketchy, but from the data analysis, it is difficult to explain by coincidence. He said that some dogs will perceive to be the owner of ventilation, it will push the owner to sit down on the nearest chair, might help. Some scholars estimate that pets can reduce people's allergies may reduce epileptic cause of sudden death.
However, the US neuroscientists United Arab Dia Hacihuoen pets prevention of sudden death in epilepsy effect of skeptical. She explained that the sudden death in children with epilepsy medication treatment is usually relatively poor, often ventilation, so the parents may not have time to take care of a pet.
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