 |
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|
|||||
 |
Anti-psychotics, anti-convulsants (for Epilepsy) These drugs control excitement, agitation and other psychomotor disturbances in schizophrenic patients and reduces the manic phase of manic-depressive conditions. It is used to control hyper-kinetic states of aggression. The psychotropic action of these anti-convulsive and anti-epileptic agents helps the patient to become more sociable for easy integration in the society. It prevents paroxysmal attacks of pain in idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia. The risk of the mother with epilepsy
giving birth to a baby with the abnormality is about three times that of
the normal population. Some of this risk is due to the anticonvulsant
drugs taken. Mothers taking more than one anticonvulsant drug might
have a higher risk of having a baby with a malformation than mothers taking
one drug. Women taking these drugs who become pregnant should consider
routine ultrasound and amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis of such abnormalities.
Overall, the risk of having an abnormal child is far outweighed by the
dangers to the mother and fetus of uncontrolled convulsions. Therefore,
anticonvulsants should be avoided during pregnancy.
Phenothiazines
Other antipsychotic drugs
|
