Seeing your child have a seizure is frightening. Many parents fear that their child could die during a seizure. The doctor may have tried to reassure you by telling you that children who are generally healthy will not die as a result...
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 ETP New - Can Children Die From Epilepsy?
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ETP New - Clinical pharmacology of clonazepam
Clonazepam is metabolized in the liver by the cytochrome P-450 system and the metabolites are excreted by the kidneys. Clonazepam is approximately 85% protein bound.
Clonazepam...
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ETP New - Efficacy of clonazepam
Clonazepam is an effective medication but its side effects and problems with tolerance and withdrawal have kept it from being more widely used. Instead, it is usually used as an...
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ETP New - How well does clonazepam work?: Intermediate
Clonazepam) is an effective medication but its side effects and problems with tolerance and withdrawal have kept it from being widely used as a first-line therapy for most kinds...
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ETP New - How well does gabapentin work?
Doctors have studied large numbers of people with epilepsy to find out how well gabapentin controls seizures. When it was used as an add-on with another seizure medicine, a number of adults had large reductions in their seizures,...
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ETP New - How well does gabapentin work?
When Neurontin (the brand name form of gabapentin) and an inactive placebo were both used as add-on therapy in careful studies Neurontin reduced seizure frequency by at least half in about 12% more people. Side effects were only a...
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ETP New - How well does Lyrica work?
When Lyrica and an inactive placebo were both used as add-on therapy in carefully performed studies, Lyrica reduced seizure frequency by at least half in about 30% (150 mg/day) to...
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ETP New - How well does Mysoline work?
Although not prescribed very often by doctors, Mysoline (primidone) can be effective in treating seizures. When Mysoline is consumed it is metabolized (processed by the body) into phenobarbital and phenoethylmelanamide, both of...
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ETP New - How well does Mysoline work?: Intermediate
Mysoline (primidone) is not used very often but it can be effective. Mysoline is broken down in the body into PEMA and phenobarbital, both of which are effective antiseizure compounds....
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ETP New - How well does Neurontin work?: Intermediate
When Neurontin and an inactive placebo were both used as add-on therapy in careful studies. Neurontin reduced seizure frequency by at least half in about 12% more people. Side effects...
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