Seizure Medication List - Epilepsy Foundation
Before receiving a prescription, your healthcare team will discuss side effects, any allergies you may have, and the type of medication that is right for you based on your seizure type or epilepsy syndrome. There are many different types of medications, and the seizure medication list below will help you understand them better.
Absence Seizures | Symptoms & Risks | Epilepsy Foundation
Absence seizures are most common in children from age 4 to 14. However, older teens and adults may also have absence seizures. Some people have absence seizures for many months or years before it’s recognized as a problem.
What Is Status Epilepticus? | Emergency Seizures & Treatment
Treatment for status epilepticus is as follows: Rescue medications are used to stop the seizures.; Oxygen and other breathing support, as well as IV fluids can be given. If repeated seizures cannot be stopped with anti-seizure medications or other treatments, hospital staff may decide to put a person into a coma to stop the seizures.
Levetiracetam - Epilepsy Foundation
2023年2月22日 · Levetiracetam (lev-eh-teer-ASS-eh-tam) is the generic name (non-brand name) for the drug called Keppra (KEP-ruh). Keppra is a widely used seizure medicine from UCB.
The Truth about Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures - Epilepsy …
2019年10月13日 · A leading pioneer in the study of PNES, Benbadis is director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and professor of the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital.
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Video EEG Test | Diagnosing Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
Hospital Video EEG. Video EEG tests are usually done in a hospital setting where seizures can be monitored in a safe way. Since seizures are unpredictable, they may not occur during regular EEG monitoring.
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) | Epilepsy Foundation
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Ketogenic Diet for Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
2019年1月23日 · What is the ketogenic diet? The "classic" ketogenic diet is a special high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that helps to control seizures in some people with epilepsy. It is prescribed by a physician and carefully monitored by a dietitian. It is usually used in children with seizures that do not respond to medications.
Types of Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
It’s not unusual that a person doesn’t know the type of seizure they have. Often seizures are diagnosed based on descriptions of what an observer has seen. These descriptions may not be fully complete, or one can’t tell where a seizure begins from this information.