Oxcarbazepine Use

Oxcarbazepine comes as a book and a abeyance (liquid) to yield by mouth. It is usually taken every 12 hours (twice a day) with or afterwards food. Yield oxcarbazepine at about the aforementioned times every day. Follow the admonition on your decree characterization carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any allotment you do not understand. Yield oxcarbazepine absolutely as directed. Do not yield added or beneath of it or yield it added generally than assigned by your doctor.

Shake the abeyance able-bodied appropriate afore anniversary use to mix the medication evenly. Use the articulate dosing syringe that came with the medication to abjure the appropriate bulk of abeyance from the bottle. You can absorb the abeyance beeline from the syringe or you can mix it with a baby bottle of baptize and absorb the mixture. Wash the syringe with balmy baptize and acquiesce it to dry thoroughly afterwards use.

Your doctor will apparently alpha you on a low dosage of oxcarbazepine and gradually access your dose, not added generally than already every 3 days. If you were demography addition medication to amusement your seizures and are switching to oxcarbazepine, your doctor may gradually abatement your dosage of the added medication while accretion your dosage of oxcarbazepine. Follow these admonition anxiously and ask your doctor if you are not abiding how abundant medication you should take.

Oxcarbazepine may advice ascendancy your seizures but will not cure your condition. Continue to yield oxcarbazepine even if you feel well. Do not stop demography oxcarbazepine afterwards talking to your doctor, even if you acquaintance ancillary furnishings such as abnormal changes in behavior or mood. If you al of a sudden stop demography oxcarbazepine, your seizures may get worse. Your doctor will apparently abatement your dosage gradually.