Depakine 200 mg 40 tablets

Depakine 200 mg 40 tablets:

• Depakene is a medicine used to treat epileptic seizures (an antiepileptic drug) and mania.
  
• It is supplied as enteric tablets for oral use (i.e. taken orally).
  

Depakine is used to treat:

• Epileptic seizures (various types of generalized seizures and partial seizures).
  
• Mania, which means you may feel very excited, happy, irritable, enthusiastic, or hyperactive.
  
• Mania occurs as part of an illness called bipolar disorder. Depakene may be used if lithium cannot be used.

Instructions for use:

• Always use this medication exactly as your doctor has told you to.
  
• Contact your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
  
• Treatment with Depakene should be started and followed by a doctor who specializes in treating epilepsy or bipolar disorders.
  
• Dosage requirements vary depending on age and weight and the doctor will adjust the dose individually to achieve satisfactory control of seizures.
  

Do not use Depakine:

• If you are allergic to sodium valproate or any of the other ingredients of this medication.
  
• If you have or have ever had liver disease and/or have serious liver or pancreas problems.
  
• If there is liver disease in your family.
  
• If the brother died due to liver disease during treatment with sodium valproate.
  
• If you suffer from porphyria, a disease that causes increased production and excretion of porphyrins (red, iron-free pigments in the blood) in the urine or stool.
  
• If you have disorders in the blood's ability to clot (thrombosis) which increases the risk of bleeding.
  
• If you have a genetic defect that causes mitochondrial disease (eg Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome).
  
• If you suffer from a urea cycle disorder (a special type of metabolic disorder).

Warnings and precautions:

Talk to your doctor before using Depakene:

• If it is given to infants and young children, especially if several antiepileptic medicines must be given at the same time.
  
• If given to children and young people with multiple disabilities and severe types of epilepsy.
  
• If you suffer from bone marrow damage.
  
• If you have a rare hereditary enzyme deficiency. If an enzymatic disorder of the urea cycle is suspected, metabolic studies should be performed before taking Depakene due to the risk of increased levels of ammonia in the blood (hyperammonemia).
  
• If you have kidney disease.
  
• If you have a low amount of protein in your blood.
  
• If you have an immune system disease called systemic lupus erythematosus.
  
• If you develop symptoms such as increased frequency of attacks, general feeling of illness, decreased appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, edema and lethargy, you should contact your doctor.
  
• This is especially true for children during the first months of treatment.
  
• If you develop unexpected bleeding into the mucous membranes or bruise easily, you should inform your doctor.
  
• If you know that there is a genetic defect in your family that causes mitochondrial disease.
  If you lack an enzyme called carnitine palmitoyltransferase type II and experience severe muscle pain, it may be a sign of muscle damage.

the components:

• The active ingredient is sodium valproate.