Question: what are the causes of epilepsy and how is the treatment done?

Peter Macharia answered on 29 May 2019:

When there is a sudden surge in the electrical activity of a brain, there is a breakdown in the communication that happens between messaging cells and brain cells in your body you get something called seizures, an example is convulsions, short spells of a blackout, or confused memory, suddenly falls for no clear reason etc. Then one can be described to epileptic

The causes of the breakdown in communication in the brain could be caused by inheritance (genetic factors), car crash(head trauma), stroke etc.

Not all types of epilepsy can be cured. common ways to tackle is surgery to stop the specific thing, causing it or anti-epileptic drugs to prevent it from occurring or a special diet