No. It is a very wrong conception regarding epilepsy treatment. Sex does not lead to any improvement in an epilepsy treatment course. Whereas epilepsy cannot be cured, but it can usually be controlled with anticonvulsant drug therapy. Patients who tend to have seizures following emotional or physical stress also get benefited from tranquilizers. After two to five years of drug control of idiopathic epilepsy, the dosage is decreased and occasionally, when enough time has elapsed during which no seizures have occurred medication can be discontinued.
Epilepsy cannot be prevented but once the seizures have been controlled by medication epileptic persons lead normal lives.

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*Depression, tension or stresses do not directly cause hypertension but these factors do affect the condition; hence person with hypertension is urged to avoid high-pressure situations and to learn to deal with stress. Meditation also proved useful for reducing stress, which helps to prevent hypertension.
*Monitoring blood pressure at home with a special kit.
*Everyone should have his blood pressure measured by a health-care professional at least once a year.
*Persons with history of hypertension or with any of the risk factors for hypertension should carefully follow their physician’s recommendations for periodic blood pressure checks.
*Hypertensive parents should also begin to receive regular blood pressure check-up early in life.

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For uninfected people
Abstinence
Safe sex

For HIV positive people
Abstinence
Safe sex
No blood or organ donation
Avoiding pregnancy
Notification of previous and prospective partners

For drug abusers
Halting the practice of sharing or reusing needles

For medical and dental professionals
Wearing of latex gloves whenever there is a possibility of contact with fluids
Proper use and disposal of hollow needles.

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*Patient with HIV infection should consume food; rich in nutrition, mainly from all type of major food groups, multivitamin supplements is a must for HIV patients.
*Contaminated food and junk food should be avoided.
*Non-pasteurized milk and milk products should be avoided.
*Exhaustion and heavy exercises should be avoided.
*Consistent use of latex condom is recommended, petroleum based lubricants should be avoided as they increase the risk of condom rupture.
*Patients with rapidly declining CD4 counts are suggested to keep strict follow up more frequently.
*As there is a vast effect of this disease on patients mind, which may lead the patient to depression and sometimes-suicidal behaviours, it is necessary to undergo psychotherapy.

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As there is memory loss seen in this disease the following measures are recommended-
*Patients need to be reminded to eat.
*Supervised activities such as walking that helps to maintain muscle tone and also improves sleep.
*Psychological treatment is necessary as there is severe depression and anxiety.

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*In anorexia nausea is the main symptom, hence one should eat less nauseated or antiemetics should be added in the food.
*For dryness, buttermilk is recommended.
*Patients should have small, frequent meals, rich in nutrition.
*Experiments with change in taste and smell of food should be done.
*For malnutrition, supplementation of rich nutritional value foodstuffs is recommended.

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