Can you get pregnant with Chinese medicine for epilepsy, and can you take medicine for seizures duri

Hello. Generally speaking, patients can consider having children when their condition is stable. However, for patients with gestational epilepsy, close cooperation between neurology and obstetricians and gynecologists should be advocated to appropriately guide the addition of antiepileptic drugs or to become pregnant after the condition is controlled.

Anti-epileptic drugs taken by pregnant women can affect the normal growth and development of the fetus. At the same time, patients with epilepsy should take active and effective preventive measures during childbirth to achieve smooth delivery.

Children born to mothers who take anti-seizure drugs are 2-3 times more likely to develop malformations than the normal population. Antiepileptic drugs are only one aspect of this risk. The mother's health is also an important factor.

Patients take a variety of precautions to reduce this risk. More than 90% of women who take antiepileptic drugs give birth to children that are completely normal.

Continuation of antiepileptic drugs**: Except for a small number of patients who have stopped seizures for many years before the planned pregnancy and there are no abnormalities in auxiliary examinations, antiepileptic drugs can be gradually reduced and discontinued before conception, most patients should continue antiepileptic drugs during conception and pregnancy**, because seizures during pregnancy, especially tonic seizures, may cause maternal trauma, leading to miscarriage or other damage to the fetus.

Simplify**drug**: It is best to use a single drug low dose**, because there is currently no antiepileptic drug that is completely safe for the fetus, so the principle of drug selection is still based on the type of seizure of the patient, and choose the drug with the best effect on controlling seizures. Monotherapy** can significantly reduce the incidence of fetal malformations.

Supplement sufficient amounts of vitamins, inorganic salts, trace elements and folic acid, ensure adequate nutrition and sleep, try to avoid taking other drugs, and prohibit alcohol.

In the case of pure Chinese medicine treatment, it is safe to get pregnant when the disease does not occur again.

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During pregnancy, female epilepsy patients should take medication scientifically. Although taking finger tease drugs will have adverse effects on the fetus, if the drug is stopped, it will cause seizures in pregnant women, which will have a very bad effect on adults and fetuses. Professor Zhang Hua said that pregnant women with epilepsy should pay attention to the following issues:

1. Simplify **drug**: It is best to use a single drug low dose**, because there is no antiepileptic drug that is completely safe for the fetus, and the principle of drug selection is still based on the type of seizure of the patient, and the drug with the best effect of controlling seizures is selected. Monotherapy** can significantly reduce the incidence of fetal malformations.

2. Continue anti-epileptic drugs**: Except for a small number of patients who have stopped seizures for many years before planning pregnancy and have no abnormalities in auxiliary examinations, they can gradually reduce and stop taking antiepileptic drugs before conception, most patients should continue anti-epileptic drugs during conception and pregnancy, because epileptic seizures during pregnancy, especially tonic seizures, may cause maternal trauma, lead to miscarriage or other damage to the fetus.

3. Supplement adequate vitamins: inorganic salts, trace elements and folic acid, ensure adequate nutrition and sleep, try to avoid taking other drugs, and prohibit alcohol.