Can you get married and have children with epilepsy drugs?

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Can you get married and have children during the medication of epilepsy? Can you have children during the medication of epilepsy? Many diseases are hereditary. This kind of disease is due to such diseases in the family history of patients. Can you get married and have children during the medication of epilepsy?

Can you get married and have children with epilepsy drugs?

General epilepsy patients in the interictal period and normal people, not only can work and study normally, but also get married and have children. Epileptic patients should consult a specialist before deciding to marry. Under normal circumstances, if the condition is well controlled, antiepileptic drugs have been used to maintain a minimum or have stopped, you can get married, but you should avoid high mental excitement, overwork and missed medication due to busy. Those epileptic patients with poor drug control and frequent seizures should not get married for the time being, and then consider getting married after the condition is basically controlled. Epilepsy patients still need to take medicine for a long time after marriage, maintain a regular and healthy life, get the understanding and help of their spouses, and have moderate sex life. For some epileptic patients with mental or intellectual disorders caused by delayed treatment in the past, we think it's better not to get married because they can't bear the responsibility of family and have no ability to bear and raise children.

Generally speaking, only 5% of the children of epilepsy patients have epilepsy, so epilepsy patients can have children. Our country's law also does not explicitly forbid epilepsy patients to have children. But from the perspective of eugenics, it is best for epilepsy patients to avoid marrying people with a history of febrile convulsions. Epilepsy patients should be stable in condition, seizure control after childbirth, epilepsy has not been controlled, and frequent seizures, and medication treatment period, should take effective contraceptive measures, should not give birth to children, otherwise prone to abnormal fetus, bring a heavy burden on society and family.

In other words, if there are still seizures, it is better not to be pregnant and have children for the time being, actively cooperate with specialists to control seizures, and give birth to children under the guidance of doctors when the condition is stable and the dosage is reduced to a safe dose. General epilepsy patients should be able to get married and have children, the problem is how to take measures to ensure the safety of mother and child before and after pregnancy.

matters needing attention

Women have some special physiological periods, which need special attention. First of all, menstruation can induce epilepsy or increase the frequency of the original seizure symptoms, the same pregnancy can also induce seizures or increase the frequency of the original seizure symptoms. Generally speaking, after menopause, epilepsy will have different degrees of improvement, so hormone replacement therapy is not advocated in menopause. Antiepileptic drugs can enter the fetal body and have a certain impact on the fetus. Because of the antagonistic effect between oral contraceptives and some antiepileptic drugs, oral contraceptives should not be used as far as possible.