Essays on Phenytoin

Question 1: Uses the correct term for chronically recurring seizures.

Answer: Epilepsy Question 2: Determines if the patient in the scenario has epilepsy. Answer: J.G. does not have epilepsy. She has only had three previous cases of seizures prior to which she had not experienced any seizures. The current cases were triggered by the cesarean section thus too early to refer to the condition as epilepsy (Ko, 2016).

Question 3: Identifies possible conditions, besides brain injury, that contributes to the lowered seizure threshold for the patient in the scenario.

Answer: Apart from brain injury, lowered seizure threshold can occur as a result of infectious illnesses such as AIDS, meningitis as well as developmental disorders such as neurofibromatosis and autism (Ko, 2016).

Question 4: Describes the pathophysiology of a seizure.

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Epileptic drugs and increased risk of fracture in people over 50

Epileptic drugs are used to cure or suppress epilepsy and seizures. Seizures are disruptions in brain activity that leads to behavioral change. It ranges from zoning for some seconds to convulsions, which may last for minutes and might cause injuries in case a person flails about. Most anti-epileptic drugs are said to induce non-traumatic fracture to people over 50 years. They are considered a secondary cause of osteoporosis because epilepsy is high associated with old people, a population already affected by osteoporosis (Cole, 2008). Moreover, these drugs are associated with bone density reduction especially to epileptic post-menopausal women. Population-based studies have ...