What is Eptoin used for?
Eptoin Tablet is a prescription medicine used to treat and prevent epilepsy (seizures). It controls seizures by decreasing the abnormal and excessive activity of the nerve cells in the brain.
Does Eptoin make you sleepy?
Phenytoin oral capsule may cause drowsiness. This can slow your thinking and motor skills. You shouldn’t drive, use machinery, or do other tasks that require alertness until you know how this drug affects you.
What kind of medicine is Eptoin?
Eptoin 100 Tablet 120’s belongs to the group of neurological medication called ‘Anticonvulsant’ (hydantoins) used to control various epileptic conditions (fits), prevent seizures during/after brain surgery or after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Can I stop Eptoin?
What happens if I stop taking Eptoin Tablet? Suddenly stopping Eptoin Tablet may cause non-stop seizures (called epileptic status) that could endanger life. Do not stop taking the medicine without talking to your doctor. Your doctor will reduce the dose slowly, if necessary, before stopping it completely.
How do you take Eptoin?
The extended-release capsules are usually taken one to four times a day. Take phenytoin at around the same time(s) every day. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take phenytoin exactly as directed.
Why is phenytoin given at night?
Why Is Phenytoin Given At Night? Phenytoin is commonly administered in the evening or at night. So that by the morning, there is sufficient concentration of the drug in the tissues and blood. This would reduce the risk or chances of a morning epileptic seizure.
What is Eptoin level?
Toxic phenytoin levels are defined as greater than 30 µg/mL. Lethal levels are defined as greater than 100 µg/mL. The reference range of free phenytoin is 1-2.5 µg/mL. In patients with renal failure associated with hypoalbuminemia, free phenytoin levels may be more accurate than total phenytoin levels.
What is eptoin used to treat?
Eptoin Tablet is a prescription medicine used to treat and prevent epilepsy (seizures). It controls seizures by decreasing the abnormal and excessive activity of the nerve cells in the brain. Eptoin Tablet can be used alone or in combination with other medicines. It may be taken with or without food.
What are the side effects of eptoin 100 mg?
Major & minor side effects for Eptoin 100 MG Tablet. Decreased coordination. Nervousness. Unsteadiness. Shaking of hands or feet. Unusual facial expressions. Trouble sleeping. Uncontrolled eye movements. Yellow colored eyes or skin.
What is PHT (phenytoin)?
Phenytoin (PHT), sold under the brand name Dilantin among others, is an anti-seizure medication. It is useful for the prevention of tonic-clonic seizures and focal seizures, but not absence seizures.
When was phenytoin discovered?
Phenytoin (diphenylhydantoin) was first synthesized by German chemist Heinrich Biltz in 1908. Biltz sold his discovery to Parke-Davis, which did not find an immediate use for it. In 1938, outside scientists including H. Houston Merritt and Tracy Putnam discovered phenytoin’s usefulness for controlling seizures, without the sedative effects
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