Are there any side effects of acupuncture electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy, like other treatments, has its own specific side effects and complications. Common complications of modern modified electroconvulsive therapy are mainly headache, nausea, vomiting and reversible memory loss. Memory loss occurs at a high rate, with foreign studies finding that at least 1/3 of patients report significant memory loss after receiving electroconvulsive therapy. However, it is generally recognized that the effects of electroconvulsive therapy on memory are limited and usually temporary, and clinically these symptoms generally improve on their own without treatment after treatment.

Modern electroconvulsive therapy has a number of disadvantages in addition to the side effects mentioned above. First, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is complicated and dangerous, requiring general anesthesia and oxygen, and is difficult to perform in primary hospitals. Secondly, due to the high requirements of electroconvulsive therapy technology and equipment, the cost of treatment is also higher. Furthermore, electroconvulsive therapy, like medication, cannot be used once and for all, but has to be maintained, or else the condition of many patients will recur. That's why medication or infrequent electroconvulsive therapy is generally recommended as a follow-up maintenance treatment for up to 6 months after electroconvulsive therapy.

The method of preventing side effects of electrotherapy: to ensure the quality of sleep before electrotherapy, nutrition and absorption of adequate water, electrotherapy on the human body will play an electrochemical role, physics for the ionization effect, if there is no adequate water and nutrition, in the long time, at least in more than 1 hour of micro-current electrotherapy, will play a role in the electrotherapy of the role of the defibrillator to rule out the side effects of electrotherapy, the key to a long period of time in electrotherapy, to be Appropriate rest for a moment, electrotherapy 30 minutes later, to take a short break and replenish water, time control in 2 hours, do electrotherapy to supplement adequate nutrition, so down, the disease elimination, people will not be deficient, memory will not be affected.