Normeg 60 tablets 500mg Levetiracetam Нормег Epilepsy

Normeg Indications

Monotherapy (drug of choice) in the treatment of partial seizures with secondary generalization or without in adults and adolescents aged 16 years who was first diagnosed with epilepsy.

As additional therapy in the treatment of:

- partial seizures with secondary generalization or without in adults and children aged 4 years, patients with epilepsy;

- myoclonic seizures in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age with juvenile myoclonic patients with epilepsy;

- primary generalized convulsive (tonic-clonic) seizures in adults and adolescents aged 12 years, patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Contraindications

Hypersensitivity to levetyratsetamu or other pyrrolidone derivatives, as well as any drug.

Dosage & Administration

The tablet taken orally, drinking plenty of fluids, regardless of the meal. The daily dose divided into two equal doses.

Line on the tablet is not intended to split pills. In case you need a smaller dosage levetyratsetam be used in another dosage form.

Monotherapy

Monotherapy for adults and adolescents aged 16 years should start with a dose of 500 mg (250 mg 2 times a day). After 2 weeks, the dose can be increased to the initial therapeutic - 1000 mg (500 mg 2 times a day). Subsequently, the dose can be increased to 250 mg twice daily every two weeks depending on clinical response. The maximum daily dose is 3,000 mg (1,500 mg 2 times a day).

Additional therapy

The physician should assign the most appropriate pharmaceutical form, method and amount of taking the drug, depending on body weight and dose.

As adjunctive therapy in children aged 4 years should start with a dose of 10 mg / kg body weight 2 times a day. Depending on the clinical response and tolerability the dose may be increased to 30 mg / kg twice daily. The dose can not increase or decrease by more than 10 mg / kg twice daily every two weeks. It should use the lowest effective dose.

Children weighing 20 kg or less levetyratsetam used in another dosage form.

Children weighing more than 50 kg the dosage prescribed by the scheme provided for adults.

Adults and children over 12 years weighing more than 50 kg, treatment should start with a dose of 1000 mg (500 mg 2 times a day).