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Fetal Anti-Convulsant syndrome

How is it treated?

For those women who need to take anti-convulsant drugs during pregnancy to control epilepsy, it is important to try and take the lowest dose that prevents fits, and if possible take only one drug rather than two or more. It is also important for these women to take folic acid daily around the time of conception and during the early part of pregnancy.

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Medical text written June 1998 by Dr P D Turnpenny. Last updated December 2005 by Dr P D Turnpenny, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.

 

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