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Keppra for kids

Sat, 03/18/2006 - 23:48
Hello, Very new 2 this, doctors want to put my 6yr old son on Keppra, anyone using this on their children? Thanks upanama

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Hello.  We are starting this

Submitted by drbii on Mon, 2018-04-16 - 17:55
Hello.  We are starting this journey..our 6year old daughter had a 4 minute absence seizure.  Really scared us.  Her sleep deprived EEG indicates that she is prone to these during wake, drowsiness and sleep.  She was put on 1ml Keppra 2x a day stepping up to 2ml 2x a day next week.  We have already noticed an uptick in her nervous energy, emotions, and not listening.  Are these side-effects that we can expect to lessen as she gets used to the medicine?  Is b-complex something that could help? 

my daughter is fixing to start Keppra

Submitted by sondrac on Thu, 2007-12-27 - 17:19
My daughter started having febrial saizures when she was 14 months old. The Dr. said it was normal. When her fever went up she would have one. Now she has developed something new. She had one eeg and it showed nothing and than she had another one sleep deprived eeg and it showed signs. I'm not sure what kind she even has the  Dr. probably told me but i can't remember. She just loses her body functions and just falls and is real confused afterward usually. She is 6 and had been on Trilipal 300mg 2 times a day since July 2006 and has had 2. we took her back to her Dr. today and he wants to put her on the Keppra 1 and halg 2 times a day 250mg. He is taking her off slowly while bring her on the Keppra slowly. I am worried so any advice anyone could give would be great.  Thanks

My son recently started

Submitted by devansh on Fri, 2017-03-24 - 08:24
My son recently started having grand Mal seizures at 16 years old. We were prescribed Kepler. We decided NOT to take the medicine and go with a Modified Atkins Diet that entails feeding our son 15 carbs a day with lots of healthy fat. He eats a lot of grass fed beef, free range eggs, organic low crab veggies and is doing fantastic! We could tell a difference in him by the 3rd day. This is not alternative or junk science. Dr. Lewis hill at Johns Hopkins has been championing this diet for years and has been really successful. Doctors are really resistant to this therapy but it works!. Read "Grain Brain" for why it works. He also takes taurine which helped stop the night time teeth grinding, jerking, and unrest in his sleep (also known to stop seizures). And he takes cur cumin as a brain protestant that raises seizures.one day came across Albert post thanking Dr Lewis  hill for curing his son seizure problem, and i got the contact of Dr Lewis hill i quickly contacted him then he made me to know that the medication is 100% permanent cure, and that was how i got the medicine which i used for my son, after which i took my son for medical test It worked!  Over a year now, my son have not show any symptoms of seizure and I believe my son is cure if you need his help email him on drlewishill247@gmail.com

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