Treatment for Seizures in Children | Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome | BANZEL.com

Treatment for seizures

Medication is the most common treatment for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). Learn more about seizure medications.

Additional seizure treatments

Because LGS is difficult to treat, it may take a combination of therapies to meet your goals for seizure control. If seizure activity is not responding to medication, your healthcare provider might suggest additional treatments for epileptic seizures.

Some of these may include:

  • Diet – The Ketogenic diet is a special high-fat, low-protein diet. It has been found to reduce seizures in some people with epilepsy.
  • Nerve stimulation – Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy sends mild electrical pulses to the brain through the vagus nerve to help prevent seizures.
  • Surgery – In corpus callosotomy surgery, healthcare providers cut the large fiber that connects the two halves of the brain in an attempt to reduce seizures. This interrupts the spread of seizures from one side to the other.

Talk to your healthcare provider about which seizure therapies might be right for you.

Whether your healthcare provider prescribes medications alone or suggests medication with additional therapy, it is important to consider all your options and educate yourself as much as possible. Learn more about these treatments through our epilepsy resources.

Important Safety Information

There are risks associated with the use of BANZEL that you should know about. We encourage you to talk to your healthcare provider about these risks.

  • Patients with a history of Familial Short QT syndrome should not be treated with BANZEL. Talk to your healthcare provider if you are unsure if this affects you or your loved one. BANZEL has been shown to reduce the QT interval. Caution should be used when administering BANZEL with other drugs that shorten the QT interval.
  • All medications to treat seizures, including BANZEL, may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people, about 1 in 500. Call your healthcare provider right away if you or your loved one experiences new or worsening symptoms of depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, thoughts or actions about suicide or self-harm, aggression, agitation, anger, anxiety, or irritability.
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