{"id":66,"date":"2009-12-22T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-12-22T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T09:55:49","slug":"q-ritalin-and-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/12\/22\/q-ritalin-and-epilepsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Ritalin and epilepsy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&amp;gt;  Normal 0      false false false  EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE               MicrosoftInternetExplorer4              &amp;lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&amp;gt;                                                                                                                                            &amp;lt;![endif]--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/professionals.epilepsy.com\/img\/figure_41.1.gif\" alt=\"EEG of Seizure\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>When faced with co-morbidities in paediatrics, many of us need to take a deep breath. It&#8217;s not really that often your off-the-street child has more than one diagnosis, is it? (And currently, you can take a 9:1 bet on the diagnosis being &#8216;bronchiolitis&#8217;.) So, when the question of treating a child with ADHD and epilepsy arises, there&#8217;s a pair of problems that are faced:<!--more-->1) guidance that suggests &#8216;caution&#8217; when treating children with epilepsy with psychostimulants: but if the child&#8217;s climbing the walls, the parents are hiding under the tables and the teachers are barring the school gates, how much &#8216;caution&#8217; is needed?<\/p>\n<p>2) how do we acquire and appraise evidence of adverse effects, or conjunctions of rare occurrences?<\/p>\n<p>These questions are in the process of being assessed by Dr Boyes in Bradford, but thoughts (as always) are welcome.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When faced with co-morbidities in paediatrics, many of us need to take a deep breath. It&#8217;s not really that often your off-the-street child has more than one diagnosis, is it? (And currently, you can take a 9:1 bet on the diagnosis being &#8216;bronchiolitis&#8217;.) So, when the question of treating a child with ADHD and epilepsy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/12\/22\/q-ritalin-and-epilepsy\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,100,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adhd","category-epilepsy","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}