Do epileptic patients need to take brain-strengthening drugs?

Patients often have questions. After the child's epilepsy, the brain is slow to respond and wants to give the child brain tonic. I don't know if it works. In life, many people simply think that the pathogenesis of epilepsy is brain injury or brain injury, and seizures are also a kind of damage to patients' brains, so they think that these patients need to "replenish their brains" and try their best to find tonic drugs. For all drugs with the words "tonic",

In fact, there is no medical basis for this. We can only express our understanding and sympathy psychologically, but we can't support it intellectually. Antiepileptic drugs for symptomatic treatment generally do not need to take other drugs at the same time. For children with epilepsy, vitamin B6 can be properly supplemented, because vitamin B6 is a coenzyme of central inhibitory neurotransmitters, which can produce certain antiepileptic effects. In addition, γ -tyramine acid, Naofukang and other drugs are theoretically helpful to improve brain function, so patients with epilepsy secondary to craniocerebral trauma can take some appropriately.

For those patients with epilepsy caused by endocrine changes, electrolyte disorder, long-term alcohol withdrawal, central system infection, metabolic diseases and idiopathic factors, "brain tonic" is meaningless, which not only wastes a lot of money, but also increases the burden on the liver for no reason when the body metabolizes these drugs, and the abuse of tonic can also cause drug allergy, poisoning and so on.