Publisher's Synopsis
Epileptic patients who are planning to start a family often face a number of anxieties:
- Is the unborn child at risk if a seizure occurs during pregnancy?
- Is a child likely to be born deformed if the mother takes antiepileptic drugs?
- Is breast feeding dangerous for the newborn child?
- Are the children likely to suffer from the same disease?
This paperwork briefly and clearly informs doctors how they should go about advising and treating such patients who want to start a family. In twelve chapters the subjects of fertility, contraception, epilepsy during pregnancy, newborns, the weeks following the birth, the lactation period, possible deformities and abnormal development, heredity and treatment with antiepileptic drugs during the pregnancy and the lactation period are described.
For easy use each subject has been dealt with in a separate chapter. Each chapter contains a summary of highlights to help the reader through the information.
