Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Breast-feeding should be how epilepsy medication

Breast-feeding of patients with epilepsy in to the baby when breastfeeding must carefully consider their own situation, Otherwise the child will bring some negative impact. Antiepileptic drugs are taking women, in her milk will inevitably contain a certain amount of anti-epileptic drugs, therefore, the infant eating sick mother's milk, the equivalent of eating their antiepileptic drugs. This and the large number of mothers drinking, the children ate the mother's milk will be drunk truth is the same. Most people use the stronger side effects of antiepileptic drugs, will have some adverse reaction. For example, taking phenobarbital often leads to motor function disorders, ataxia, and as sodium valproate will serve nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal discomfort, lack of appetite, sometimes there abdominal pain, diarrhea. Multi-drug combination, these side effects will be greater. The excretion of drug babies slow, relatively weak, eat antiepileptic drugs containing milk, will cause great harm. Therefore, women in the breast-feeding, especially early lactation, best not to take stronger side effects of antiepileptic drugs. If fear of a more serious attack, when the administration must be careful choice. Incidental to the point that, if possible more serious attack, not medication is not the best approach. A better approach is to stop breastfeeding, and there are plans to be nursing mothers and babies isolation. This ensures that babies are not anti-epileptic drug harm, but also can guarantee that there will not attack brought danger to the baby.

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