Whether children with epilepsy need to take lifelong medication depends on the type of epileptic seizures , frequency of seizures, and the effect of the child's medication. Most children with epilepsy do not need to take lifelong medication. 70%-80% of children with epilepsy can be better controlled if they are diagnosed by a doctor in a regular hospital and treated with reasonable anti-epileptic drugs. Generally, if the anti-epileptic drugs can well control the child's epileptic seizures, and there are no epileptic seizures within 2 years on the basis of the anti-epileptic drugs, then the anti-epileptic drugs can be gradually reduced until the drug is discontinued.
During the process of reducing and discontinuing the drug, if the child has another seizure, it is suggested that the drug may be reduced too quickly, or the drug may be reduced to induce seizures. At this time, you cannot continue to reduce the dose, and you need to return to the initial dose, or depending on the severity of the attack, return to the dose before reduction and continue to maintain it for a period of time. For a small number of refractory epilepsy , it may be the type of epileptic seizure, or the cause of epilepsy is relatively special, such as genetic metabolic disease , and the control is poor based on medication, the child may need to take anti-epileptic drugs for life.
