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Top Drugs Week 5

Antiepileptic drugs/ anticonvulsant drugs

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Dilantin, Phenytoin Class: Anticonvulsant Indication: Antiepileptic drug, works by slowing down the impulses in the brain caused by seizures. Does not treat all seizure types.
Tegretol, Carbamazepine Class: Anticonvulsant Indication: Works by decreasing nerve impulses that cause seizure, and pain. Treats partial, tonic-clonic, and mixed seizures. Also treat nerve pain, such as trigeminal neuralgia and glossopharyngeal neuralgia.
Imitrex, Sumatriptan Class: Antimigraine agent Indication: Narrows blood vessels around the brain, reduces substances in the body that can trigger headache, pain , nausea, light sensitivity, and sound.
Plaquenil, Hydroxychloroquine Class: Antimalarial Indication: Treats or prevents malaria. Also treats symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and discoid, or systemic lupus erythematosus. Can cause dangerous effects on the heart, especially if taken with Z-pak.
Lyrica, Pregabalin Approved as an anticonvulsant, slows down impulses in the brain that cause seizure, also effect chemicals in the brain that send pain signals across the nervous system. Treats pain caused by fibromyalgia, diabetic neuropathy, herpes zoster, or spinal cor
Neurontin, Gabapentin Class: Antiepileptic Indication: Antiepileptic, anticonvulsant, affects chemicals and nerves in the body that are involved in causing seizure and some types of pain. Used in adults to treat nerve pain caused by herpes or singles. Treats children, 3 year
Lamictal, Lamotrigine Class: Triazine anticonvulsant Indication: Anticonvulsant, used alone or with other medications to treat epilepsy in adults and children. Delay mood swings in adults with BPD. Immediate relsease can be used for children age 2 for seizures, should not be
Keppra, Levetiracetam Class: Anticonvulsant Indication: Prescription medication used to treat certain types of seizures in people with epilepsy, partial- onset, myoclonic, and tonic-clonic seizures
Mestinon, Pyridostigmine Class: Muscle stimulant Indication: Affects chemicals in the body that are involved in the communication between nerve impulses and muscle movement. Treats the symptoms of myasthenia gravis. Used int eh military to treat people who have been exposed to n
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