Pregnancy and epılepsy
Özet
Epilepsy is one of the chronic diseases that has been based on before three thousand years of the Assyrian-Babylonian, Chinese and Indian sources, is still important and has been had a different significance for women. Though that pregnancy itself is a complicated process, one of the important periods of women’s life, the process can be more emphasized for women with epilepsy. Epilepsy, the adverse effects of the seizures and anti-epileptic drugs on the mother and fetus has been investigated by lots of researchers. This periods contains; the doctor supervision before planning pregnancy, usage of folic acid, a seizure-free period, the selection of likely to less teratogenic anti-epileptic drugs. Epilepsy and pregnancy period has been explained in this review. © 2016 Düzce Medical Journal.
