During the period of epilepsy treatment, the patient takes it for a long time. When the epilepsy patient suffers from other diseases, many family members are worried that the anti-epileptic drug will affect other drugs at the same time, and they think about temporarily stopping the anti-epileptic drug for a few days, etc. It is very dangerous to take antiepileptic drugs after other diseases are cured.
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Sudden withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs may cause Severe status epilepticus. When epilepsy patients suffer from other diseases while taking antiepileptic drugs, not only cannot reduce or suspend antiepileptic drugs, but also accelerate the excretion of drugs due to fever, diarrhea, etc., and may also reduce blood drug concentrations, break the balance of blood drug concentrations, induce epilepsy.
If a patient develops a cold or other disease during the treatment of epilepsy, the correct way is to communicate with the attending doctor, and choose a cold medicine that will not interact according to the type of medicine he is taking. Antiepileptic drugs should be taken. Take normally according to daily type and dosage. The medicines for the two diseases can be taken half an hour apart.
If the patient suffers from other chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes commonly seen in the elderly, these diseases also require long-term use of antiepileptic drugs. The patient also needs to inform the doctor in detail when visiting a doctor for epilepsy to facilitate the selection of appropriate antiepileptic drugs to formulate a treatment plan for you.
Patients are concerned about waiting for a certain disease to cure before treating epilepsy is wrong. Because each seizure of epilepsy will have a certain impact on the patient’s physical and mental health, it is necessary to detect and treat early, and try not to delay the treatment time; the practice of self-stopping the drug due to other conditions during treatment is also dangerous, and it is likely to change The blood concentration of the drug in the body can lead to seizures or status epilepticus, and the previous epilepsy treatment is “returned”.
Taiyuan Epilepsy Hospital experts remind: Epilepsy treatment must be timely, and the treatment period cannot be interrupted at will, and insist on taking medicine to fight the disease, in order to achieve a better treatment effect, control the seizure, and help the patient. Back to normal life.