Treatment of infantile epilepsy

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My child is now 16 years old, in the 10-year-old appeared epilepsy symptoms, mainly limbs twitch, mouth foaming, before taking medicine about half a year, now a month, sometimes twice, treatment for a period of time, now it is good, I share this experience of my child infant epilepsy treatment to you, I hope to have a reminder to you.

Treatment of infantile epilepsy

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

"Eugenics" has been the call of our country for many years. Only by doing this can we reduce the occurrence of various diseases. When choosing a spouse, epileptic patients should avoid marrying people with family history of epilepsy, forbid close relatives to marry, and forbid both men and women with a history of primary epilepsy to marry.