West syndrome or West's Syndrome is an uncommon to rare epileptic disorder in infants. It is named after the English physician, William James West (1793â1848), who first described it in an article published in The Lancet in 1841. The original case actually described his own son, James ...
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Medications for Infantile Spasms
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Vigabatrin
Fewer patient posts reported that Vigabatrin helped them when used for Infantile Spasms (9% lower than average of other Infantile Spasms treatments)
Sabril
An average number of patient posts reported that Sabril helped them when used for Infantile Spasms
Prednisone
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Methylprednisolone
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Dexamethasone
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My son took ACTH injections and prednisone for his Infantile Spasms. The ACTH was what helped up get rid of the seizures. He was only five months old at the time (he is 4 now) and we have...
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...and was initially diagnosed with infantile spasms at seven months and were presribed Keppra at eight months. He seizures become progressively worse ...all day. We are now weaning Keppra and are...
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Topamax - I have a 11 month old child that has been diagnosed with infantile spasms. They started?
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...to you.
Second, I am not saying they are infantile spasms, but seriously I would not let the age factor cut it as the reason why they are not. I would push ...2 when she develope...
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...my son does have Infantile spasms which are also know ...me.
Have you found the infantile spasms forum yet? It has loads ...have children with IS:
The Infantile Spasms Community &bul...
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...Braden did when he had Infantile Spasms.. He took shots of ...weeks which cured the Infantile Spasms; however the 'but' part ...when a child has Infantile Spasms, he/she usually develops othe...
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My son had infantile spasms, he was on neurotin,keppra, topamax, ACTHAR injections, and now on vigabatrin. He has CVI. Ugh it's...
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...was reading a study last night about the DTaP vaccine that babies receive and one of the side effects of the vaccine was infantile spasms...
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...epilepsy syndrome composed of the triad of infantile spasms, an interictal electroencephalogram (EEG) pattern termed hypsarrhythmia, and mental retardation,
although the...
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