Drug Name

Keppra (Levetiracetam)

Drug Uses

Keppra is secondhand for treating partial-onset, myoclonic, or generalised tonic-clonic seizures in patients with epilepsy. It is ill-used in combining with over-the-counter medicines. It may besides be ill-used for otc weather as driven by your fix.

How to use

Use Keppra as directed by your fix.

    * Take Keppra by mouthpiece with or without nutrient.
    * Swallow Keppra unit. Do not breakage, infatuation, or chaw ahead swallowing.
    * Keppra plant outdo, if it is interpreted at the like clock(s) apiece day.
    * Continue to proceeds Keppra tied, if you flavour advantageously. Do not drop any doses.

Ask your wellness aid supplier any questions you may deliver approximately how to use Keppra.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Keppra is an antiepileptic. Exactly how it workings is alien, but it may study by retardation unnatural heart impulses in the encephalon.

Missed Dose

If you girl a elvis of Keppra and are exploitation it regularly, takings it as shortly as potential. If it is virtually metre for your adjacent elvis, skitter the lost dot and go backrest to your even dosing agenda. Do not return 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store Keppra 'tween 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Brief reposition at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Store aside from estrus, wet, and igniter. Do not storehouse in the john. Keep Keppra out of the stretch of children and outside from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Keppra if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any element in Keppra

Contact your bushel or wellness charge supplier rectify aside if any of these implement to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Keppra . Tell your bushel or druggist if you suffer any checkup weather, specially if any of the chase enforce to you:

    * if you are significant, preparation to go meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal grooming, or dietetical supplementation
    * if you suffer allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you suffer liver-colored or kidney problems, or you are on dialysis
    * if you deliver a chronicle of genial or humour problems, or self-destructive thoughts or actions



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Keppra . However, no particular interactions with Keppra are known at this meter.

Possible Side Effects

Check with your md if any of these near green position effects run or get pesky:

    * Dizziness; sleepiness; release of appetence; fluid poke; fatigue; vomit; failing.

Seek aesculapian care compensate forth if any of these spartan position effects pass:

    * Severe hypersensitised reactions (reckless; urticaria; itch; difficultness eupneic; meanness in the bureau; bulge of the mouthpiece, boldness, lips, or lingua); behavioural changes (e.g., hostility; upheaval; wrath; numbness; snappishness; antagonism); changes in imagination; reduced coordination; impression; extremum sleepiness, weariness, or impuissance; pyrexia, chills, or huffy pharynx; hallucinations; irrational thoughts or beliefs; storage passing; genial or climate changes; new or declension seizures; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; strange bruising or hemorrhage; yellowing of the bark or eyes.

More Information

If you suffer any questions roughly Keppra, delight tattle with your md, chemist, or former wellness tending supplier.
Keppra is to be victimised solitary by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not contribution it with early citizenry.