Oxcarbazepine

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Oxcarbazepine is approved for use:
Alone or with other seizure medicines to treat focal or partial seizures in adults.
Alone to treat focal or partial seizures in children age 4 years and older.
With other seizure medicines to treat focal or partial seizures in children age 2 years and older.

Oxcarbazepine (ox-car-BAZ-eh-peen) is the generic name (non–brand name) for the drug called Trileptal (try-LEP-tal) from Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Oxtellar XR by Supernus Pharmaceuticals is an extended release version of the drug that can be taken once a day. Oxcarbazepine is also available in a liquid form.

Oxcarbazepine is available in many countries, but the name or look may be different. The dose measured in milligrams (mg) is the same.

It is used to treat:
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Focal Impaired Awareness or Complex Partial Seizures
Secondarily Generalized Seizures or Bilateral Tonic Clonic Seizure
Focal Aware or Simple Partial Seizure
Tonic-clonic Seizures

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