Epilepsy meds

Medications which may lower seizure threshold - Australian Prescriber

Medications which may lower seizure threshold - Australian Prescriber

Most people who have epilepsy are warned that certain substances, especially other medications and alcohol, 'do not mix with their pills'. This is partly correct.

Epilepsy meds could turn you into an instant poet

Epilepsy meds could turn you into an instant poet

An epileptic woman started writing 10 to 15 poems a day after going on medication to control her seizures.

Boy, 7, suffers horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication Daily

Boy, 7, suffers horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication Daily

Oakley Orange, 11, was diagnosed with epilepsy and given medication to help manage his condition. But he has since suffered a severe.

The bizarre condition is known as Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS), which causes the cells in skin to die before shedding - rather like a snake's.

The NHS website lists SJS and Tens as 'very rare' side effects from taking Carbamazepine.

You feel so helpless. She said: 'It is the most horrific thing for a parent to have to see their child suffer in the way Oakley has.

Then his entire body burst into blisters before his hair and finger and toenails fell out - leaving him looking he had been burnt alive.

But he has since suffered a severe allergic reaction to it - and the allergy has caused his skin to shed.