My nephew is taking oxetol 300 for 3 years. He is 11 years now. He had two episode of focal epilepsy before he started Oxetol, After medication there is no epilepsy in last 3-years. His EEG & MRI was normal but now we did the sleep deprived EEG which was not normal? Have following question and need your valuable advice. 1- His EEG was normal but Sleep Deprived EEG had shown some abnormal report when we did it after 3 years. Do we need to do this test at some other hospital to rule out mistakes in tests? 2- Shall we show the report to some other doctor? 3- doctor asked to continue the medicine and after one year do the same test? 3- How long kid has to take this medicine? 3- Oxetol 300 can cause side effect since he is taking for long time. 4- his height is also not increasing as expected? He is 146 cm at the age of 11-years. 5- he is a bit fatty now.(40 Kg at the age of 11-years & height 146 cm), is it because of OXETOL? 6- what should be done to get cured from this. 7- what to do with height gain and control weight? Kindly advice for his epilepsy test & medication and height issue? Regards.
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Your nephew had focal epilepsy which was well controlled with oxetal 300mg, for 3 years. Before stopping the drug, ERG was taken. This time sleep deprived. Sleep deprivation is a activating procedure , like deep breathing , or photic stimuli. Unfortunately REG showed some changes. So doctors advicesd to continue Oxetal. Because there is a risk of having a seizure. if REG was normal, they would have tapered and stopped the drug. Still this does not guarantee that, he will never have seizure in future. As a precaution, they are asking to continue. No problems with the drug being taken for 5 years or more. Your nephew is lucky to have good control of focal epilepsy.. So after 1 or 2 years sleep deprived REG may be taken and decided in future about stopping medicines. K Haridas
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No need for a repeat test and you can take a second opinion from a paediatric neurologist and anti epileptic medication needs to be continued and We can increase height till 18 years of age and I will suggest to do various sports activity like playing football, cycling, skipping and can also take calcium and protein rich food.
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