The harm of antiepileptic drugs

summary

One day in class, my deskmate suddenly had a twitch in the corner of his mouth, fainted, and his body kept shaking. At that time, everyone was scared. Fortunately, he was sent to the hospital in time. He said that it was mild epilepsy. After treatment, he got a lot better. In order to avoid this situation, let's talk about the harm of antiepileptic drugs.

The harm of antiepileptic drugs

Drug 1: at present, the most commonly used drugs include traditional antiepileptic drugs such as carbamazepine, sodium valproate, and new antiepileptic drugs such as lamotrigine, topiramate, and oxcarbamate. These antiepileptic drugs are safer than phenytoin sodium, phenobarbital and other old drugs with less side effects, and are ideal choices for patients with epilepsy.

Drug 2: epilepsy drug treatment advocates single drug treatment, let the doctor according to the patient's condition and examination results to suit the medicine, see the specific condition of patients with epilepsy suitable for what kind of drug, what kind of drug treatment effect of epilepsy patients can achieve the best.

Drug 3: starting from a small dose, if a single drug is ineffective, we can consider adding or changing another antiepileptic drug. We must not mix a variety of antiepileptic drugs together, which may lead to drug resistance of epilepsy and increase the occurrence of side effects. If it is really believed that one drug is ineffective or has excessive side effects on the patient, it should be replaced gradually when another drug is needed.

matters needing attention

After epileptic seizures, the consciousness of patients is often vague, and there will be purposeful actions or behaviors. In this case, while doing a good job of epilepsy nursing, we should avoid excessively limiting the activities of patients, which will lead to aggressive behaviors of patients.