Epilepsy

Active Ingredient: Clonazepam

Indication for Clonazepam

Population group: only adults (18 - 65 years old)

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:

1-8 mg once a day

Route of admnistration

Oral

Defined daily dose

1 - 8 mg

Dosage regimen

From 1 To 8 mg once every day

Loading dose

1 mg

Detailed description

Initial dosage should not exceed 1 mg/day. The maintenance dosage for adults normally falls within the range 4 to 8 mg.

Active ingredient

Clonazepam

Clonazepam exhibits pharmacological properties which are common to benzodiazepines and include anticonvulsive, sedative, muscle relaxing and anxiolytic effects. Animal data and electroencephalographic investigations in man have shown that clonazepam rapidly suppresses many types of paroxysmal activity including the spike and wave discharge in absence seizures (petit mal), slow spike wave, generalised spike wave, spikes with temporal or other locations as well as irregular spikes and waves.

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