Epilepsy cause unconscious effects on the sufferers. Sufferers can fall at any place if the disease is attacking. Here are some tips and natural treatment in dealing to cope with epilepsy. To cope with epilepsy, the patient could do a steam bath every morning, hanging themselves in the sun in the morning, and ...

Yesterday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned and advised healthcare professionals to be careful when prescribes Topiramate (Topamax) in epileptic pregnant women for treating headache migraine or epileptic seizures that has been approved by FDA, because the drug increases the risk of birth defects, such as children with ...

Contrary with previous findings, a new study suggest that antiepileptic drugs that taken from mother with epilepsy during breastfeeding have no harmful effect in later life of their children for the intelligence. The study that had a purpose to evaluate the long-term effects of in utero antiepileptic drug exposure on cognition, ...

From recent retrospective medical record review among 1196 admissions from 2006 to 2009, the researchers found 6.9% of the patients with cryptogenic partial seizures refractory to traditional antiepileptic medications had 'autoimmune epilepsy' that characterized by the presence of autoimmune antibodies. Although this disease is rare, the patients may respond to immune-modulating ...

Recent alert from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) related to lamotrigine (market as Lamictal from GlaxoSmithKline included orally disintegrating tablet; Lamictal ODT, a chewable, dispersible tablet; Lamictal CD, and extended release product; Lamictal XR), as approvement treatment for epilepsy in children 2 years and older, also for bipolar disorder ...

A new study suggest that increased risk of suicide was not related to current antiepileptic drugs(AEDs) but most important to the illness carrier from the patients. The first study author, Alejandro Arana, MD, from Risk MR Pharmacovigilance Services in Zaragoza, Spain, and colleagues, write in The New England Journal of Medicine ...

Many of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) could increase the risk of depression and suicidal behavior. Those drugs included topiramate, levetiracetam, vigabatrin, and tiagabine. However, according to new research that published in July 27 issue of Neurology said that not all AEDs may increase those risks. A conventional AEDs such as barbiturates, and other newer ...

During study among 300 patients with epilepsy from the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Mexico, the researchers found thyroid hormone abnormalities in patient with epilepsy who taking Antiepileptic drugs. Lead investigator, Iris Martinez-Juárez, MD, from ...