Diagnosis and treatment
Valproate
Only if there is absolutely no other alternative, can there be a case for prescribing valproate to girls or women of childbearing age.
September 2023: Valproate for men: Statement from the Swiss Epilepsy League
September 2023: Revised folic acid RDA for women with epilepsy
Websites that are helpful for epilepsy diagnosis and treatment
Diagnosis website with videos for professionals (in English, registration required to view videos): www.epilepsydiagnosis.org
Information on valproate from Swissmedic (German/French)
This tool calculates the risk of seizure recurrence after stopping anti-epileptic drugs: AED withdrawal risk calculator
This website provides up-to-date information (in German) on shortages of drugs, including anti-epileptic drugs):
www.drugshortage.ch
Swiss Database for Dosing Medicinal Products in Pediatrics: swisspeddose.ch
SUDEP kompakt – praxisrelevante Erkenntnisse und Empfehlungen zum plötzlichen, unerwarteten Tod bei Epilepsie
Fachbeiträge der Epilepsie-Liga zur Epilepsiebehandlung (German)
auch erschienen auf dem Ärztenetzwerk coliquio.de
Epileptische Anfälle durch Antibiotika? (Stephan Rüegg, 2016)
Nichtepileptische psychogene Anfälle (Andrea Rossetti, 2017)
Epilepsie und Antibabypille: Eine heikle Kombination (Günter Krämer, 2016)
Responsible: Stephan Rüegg, Barbara Tettenborn, Editorial team; last updated: October 2023.