Abstract

Eswari P. V. S. N.*, Pavan Kumar B. and Lakshmi. P.

ABSTRACT

A prescription is a written advice that mentions drugs and other instructions given to either pharmacist or chemist to dispense the drugs to patients for the proper treatment of disease. It provides information like an adequate dose of the drug to be given, its duration and the way it has to be taken. Seizure is a transient occurrence of signs and symptoms resulting from abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in brain. Children with seizure disorders require prolonged antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy for atleast two seizure-free years. Initial treatment approaches focus on drug therapy, either monotherapy or adjunctive therapy. Results: Among the study population male patients (53.84%) were found to be higher than that of females (46.15%). Conventional AEDs are commonly prescribed in our study than newer anti-epileptics, sodium valproate was frequently used as monotherapy followed by benzodiazepine. Conclucion: Our study concluded that male children were more prone to the seizures than female children. Regarding age wise distribution, the children between 1-4 yrs of age were admitted with the complaint of seizures. Non-complaince observed in patients is comparitvely less than other studies this is because the patients receiving proper counseling about their medication.