Epilepsy drugs in pregnancy may lead to teenage problems at school
Women with epilepsy face uncomfortable positions when they decide to have children as or seizures or a medicine, to prevent them are suspected to harm fetus. But new research gives some potentially assuring news.
Study researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden investigated reports of 1,235 children born to mothers with epilepsy between 1973 and 1986. The researchers looked at the treatments the mothers received and the school records at age 16 for the children.
They have found the children of mothers receiving polytherapy a combination of drugs had in 3 times greater disagreements of not finishing school, in comparison with their peers. However, the children of mothers who only took a single treatment did not seem to be more probable to leave school than their peers, although they were less likely to "pass with excellence."
“The real important finding - that women on one medication, who have moderate epilepsy, have normal children," said doctor Shlomoshinner, a member of the American Academy of the Neuralgia and the neurologist in Albert Einstein's Medical College in New York has told. Shinnar hasn't been connected with the research.
Birth of the child is an important reason, when prescribing medicines to treat epilepsy because of concerning effects of drugs.
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