How to treat epilepsy in children

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Recently, children suffering from epilepsy, seizures when the body will move, twitch, very heartache, took a lot of drugs, the body gradually better, you want to know how to treat children with epilepsy. Is that right? Let me talk to you about how to cure epilepsy in children.

How to treat epilepsy in children

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

Epilepsy patients in daily life to prevent cold, fever and other diseases, such as body temperature more than normal 39 ℃, should be timely symptomatic treatment, active prevention of epilepsy caused by some diseases, such as intracranial infection, brain trauma, febrile convulsion, these are the correct methods to prevent epilepsy.