How long does child epileptic medicine take commonly?

summary

Many patients and their families have the impression that after taking antiepileptic drugs for a long time, children will show side effects such as slow reaction and poor comprehension ability. At this time, the family members of the children are often very anxious, think that taking antiepileptic drugs will make people stupid, some parents even let the children stop taking drugs, resulting in repeated disease and can not be effectively controlled. Let's take a look at the following.

How long does child epileptic medicine take commonly?

First: if epilepsy relapses for a long time, it will cause adverse effects on the cognitive function of patients. Generally speaking, it will affect the intelligence, memory and learning ability of patients. Mental retardation and memory decline are the basic brain lesions, not caused by a single drug.

Second: but antiepileptic drugs can effectively control the seizure frequency of epilepsy, to a certain extent, prevent the damage of cognitive function. With the progress of medical treatment, compared with typical drugs, new antiepileptic drugs have less side effects and almost negligible damage to cognitive function.

Third: many family members think that patients are stupid because of taking medicine. In fact, those are just some typical adverse reactions of antiepileptic drugs. These adverse reactions include mental aspects (manifested as excessive sedation, energy loss, etc.) and nervous system aspects (manifested as slow movement, dull eyes, etc.), but these adverse reactions are often rare and reversible.

matters needing attention

First use single drug for the treatment of epilepsy, now most experts advocate the use of single antiepileptic drugs as far as possible, in order to avoid the interaction between drugs, reduce the occurrence of adverse reactions, but also easy to observe the curative effect.