Modern aspects of treatment of schizophrenia
The symptoms of schizophrenia to medication. However, as in the case of diabetes, has not yet been found drugs, allowing completely cure the disease. At the same time, in psychiatry, there are medicines that can alleviate symptoms in the vast majority of patients with schizophrenia. Medications used to treat schizophrenia, known as antipsychotic or neuroleptic means (the representatives of these groups of drugs used to treat schizophrenia haloperidol, triftazin, zipreksa, rispolept, tsiklodol). They suppress hallucinations, delirium, restore mental processes. It appears that antipsychotic means adjusting a violation of biochemical reactions in cells of the brain caused by disease.
Psychosocial rehabilitation. While psychotherapy is itself unable to cure the symptoms of schizophrenia, individual and group sessions can provide important moral support and to create a friendly atmosphere that is very important both for the patients themselves or their loved ones. Special studies have shown that those patients who, in addition to conventional drug therapy group attended psychosocial rehabilitation, carried the disease much easier.
Hospitalization need to hospitalize those patients who have been particularly severe form of schizophrenia in the initial period of illness. After the course of effective drug therapy most of these patients can continue treatment in the support groups, rehabilitation centers, or outpatient. Most often, repeated relapses and the worsening observed in those patients. that alone stop the drug recommended by a doctor.
What is the effectiveness of the treatment of patients with schizophrenia?
Treatment of advanced medical products is quite effective in the vast majority of patients with schizophrenia and the future seemed quite promising. Recent experimental studies of brain neurophysiology and psychopharmacology allowed to hope that the medical therapy of schizophrenia will be more efficient and will help even more patients.
According to statistics, approximately 25% of patients with schizophrenia taking anti-psychotic drugs regularly for 10 years. become healthy. The state of an additional 25% of patients improved significantly, while another 25% - moderately. About 15% of patients did not respond to treatment, while 10% died during this period, primarily as a result of suicide or accident.