Epilepsy

Active Ingredient: Clonazepam

Indication for Clonazepam

Population group: only newborns (0 - 40 days old) , infants (40 days - 1 year old)

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

0.25-1 mg mg once a day

Route of admnistration

Oral

Defined daily dose

0.25 - 1 mg

Dosage regimen

From 0.25 To 1 mg once every day

Loading dose

0.25 mg

Detailed description

Initial dosage should not exceed 0.25 mg/day for infants. The maintenance dosage normally falls within the ranges:

Infants (0 to 1 year): 0.5 to 1 mg

In some forms of childhood epilepsy, certain patients may cease to be adequately controlled by clonazepam. Control may be re-established by increasing the dose, or interrupting treatment with clonazepam for 2 or 3 weeks. During the interruption in therapy, careful observation and other drugs may be needed.

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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