Suksilep is a synthetic anticonvulsant. It is used to treat epileptic seizures. Next, consider the analogues of "Suksilep", as well as indications for its use and cost.
Indications for use
According to the instructions for use, "Suksilep" is used in the following cases:
- Against the background of pycnoleptic absences, as well as in the presence of complex or atypical convulsive seizures.
- In the presence of myoclonic-astatic small seizures.
- Against the background of juvenile myoclonic seizures (impulsive seizures).
Indications for the use of "Suksilep" should be strictly observed.
Contraindications
The presented drug cannot be used in a number of the following cases:
- In case of impaired liver function.
- Against the background of impaired renal function.
- In case of blood diseases.
- With porphyria.
- Against the background of hypersensitivity to the components of the drug.
The composition of "Suksilep"
Dosage form - capsules: size No. 1, hard gelatin, with an orange cap and a white body; contents - white hardened mass (100 and 120 pcs. in plastic or dark glass bottles, in a pack of cardboard 1 bottle). Active substance: ethosuximide, in 1 capsule - 250 mg. Auxiliary components: gelatin, purified water, macrogol 400, titanium dioxide (E 171), sunset dye yellow (E 110).
Who is the manufacturer of Suksilep?
Cost of medication and manufacturer
The drug is an expensive medication. Its cost ranges from two to seven thousand rubles. In the instructions for use for "Suksilep" such information is missing. This is a German-made medicine, it is produced by the pharmaceutical company Yenapharm.
Analogues of the drug
Similar drugs are similar to "Suksilep" in indications for use and its pharmacological properties. In comparison with analogues, it is necessary to carefully study the active components of the drugs. In addition, you can’t pick up an analog for yourself, you need to do this only with the permission of a doctor.
List of analogues
The "Suksilep" quite a lot of analogues. The main ones are medicines in the form of Benzonal, Tebantin, Keppra, Diphenin, Frizium, Diuremida, Melepsin, Neuralgin, Meditan, Ospolota and others. Let's consider them in more detail.
Analog "Benzonal"
This analogue can replace "Suksilep" in the presence of indications such as convulsive forms of epilepsy. In addition, the substitute can be used for Kozhevnikovsky epilepsy and against the background of focal and Jackson's seizures. Reviews about Benzonal are mostly positive. The presented analogue is one of the cheapest substitutes for Suksilep; the cost of Benzonal is around 100 rubles.
Tebantin
The medicine "Tebantin" is used to treat patients who suffer from epilepsy. In another way, this drug is also called "Gabapentin." This analogue is suitable for adults and children over the age of twelve. The drug "Tebantin" is prescribed as monotherapy or as part of a comprehensive treatment of epileptic partial seizures, including those that may be accompanied by secondary generalization. What is the price of Tebantin?
For children aged three to twelve years, it is also prescribed as an additional medication in the treatment regimens for partial seizures. The instructions for use with Gabapentin tablets confirm this.
To date, there is no evidence of the use of the drug for three-year-old children as monotherapy. It can be prescribed to patients who suffer from neuropathy, and in addition, pain of a neuropathic nature. The price of Tebantin is four hundred and thirty rubles.
Replacement drug "Keppra"
The drug is prescribed if patients have partial seizures with secondary generalization. The price of Keppra is high. An additional indication is the occurrence of myoclonic seizures, which are associated with juvenile epilepsy. Among other things, this analogue can replace "Suksilep" in the presence of the patient's primary generalized clonic seizures. True, this Belgian drug is also not cheap. The price of Keppra is from one to three thousand rubles.
The medicine "Diphenin"
The drug "Diphenin" is also used to treat epilepsy. Mostly it can be used in patients with severe epileptic seizures, and in addition, against the background of status epilepticus, accompanied by clonic seizures. This analogue is perfect for the treatment and prevention of seizures in the field of neurosurgery.
Sometimes this drug is prescribed for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, which are caused by organic damage to the nervous system and, in addition, with an overdose of cardiac glycosides. In combination with "Carbamazepine" this medication is indicated in the presence of trigeminal neuralgia. As for the cost - this is a cheap Ukrainian drug, the price of which is thirty rubles.
What other analogues of Suksilep are effective?
Analog "Frizium"
Indications for use of the Frizium medication are neuroses, and in addition, psychopathies, which are accompanied by anxiety, tension, agitation, insomnia and increased irritability.
In addition, the presented analogue is suitable for use in organ neurosis, migraine, menopause and epilepsy as an additional tool in combination with anticonvulsants. This is an expensive drug, its cost is six thousand rubles. Russian analogues of "Suksilep" are no worse.
Analogue "Diuremide"
The drug "Diuremide" is used to treat glaucoma and epilepsy in combination with other anticonvulsants. Among other things, this medication is used to treat altitude sickness. In this case, the medicine reduces the time of acclimatization, but its effect on the manifestations of this disease is negligible. The cost of this medicine ranges from two hundred to three hundred rubles.
Analog "Phenobarbital"
The drug "Phenobarbital" acts as a cure for seizures, so it is used for diseases such as epilepsy, spastic paralysis, chorea, eclampsia and spasms of peripheral arteries. In addition, it is advisable to use it for hemolytic disease of the newborn, and in addition, against the background of a state of nervous excitement and in the presence of sleep disturbance. This is a Kazakhstani analogue, the cost of which is around 300 rubles.
The medicine "Melepsin"
Melepsin is a broad-spectrum drug, and unlike Suksilep, it is used to treat more diseases. Indications for the use of the drug "Melepsin" are the following diseases:
- The patient has focal epilepsy with simple or complex generalized seizures.
- Against the background of generalized epilepsy with convulsive seizures.
- In the presence of trigeminal neuralgia.
- Against the background of glossopharyngeal neuralgia.
- In the presence of bipolar affective states of different genesis.
- In the presence of dysphoric and aggressive disorders, which are caused by personality and behavioral disorders.
- With the development of alcohol withdrawal syndrome, when a person has anxiety along with convulsions, hyper excitability, sleep disturbance, and so on.
- With diabetic neuropathy with pain.
- Against the background of epileptiform seizures with multiple sclerosis.
- In the presence of tonic convulsions and paroxysmal paresthesia.
- In the case of diabetes insipidus of central origin.
- Against the background of polyuria of neurohormonal nature.
The cost of this universal Egyptian counterpart is six hundred rubles.
The medicine "Neuralgin"
The drug "Neuralgin" is used to treat neuropathic pain in adult patients. In addition, "Neuralgin" is used in combination with other antiepileptic drugs for the treatment of partial epileptic seizures with secondary generalization in adults and children over twelve years of age. Apply this analogue of "Suksilep" and for the treatment of a partial attack in children aged six to twelve years. For this Ukrainian drug you need to pay six hundred rubles.
The medicine "Meditan"
The drug "Meditan" is intended for the treatment of partial epileptic seizures in adults and children over six years of age, in combination with other antiepileptic drugs. Partial epileptic seizures can be treated with this medication as part of monotherapy. This analogue, among other things, is used in the presence of concomitant neuralgic pain in adults, and in addition, against the background of diabetic neuropathy and in the case of postherpetic neuralgia. The cost of this drug is three hundred rubles.
Analogue "Encorat chrono"
Indications for use in this medicine for seizures are as follows:
- The presence of generalized epileptic seizures.
- The patient has Lennox syndrome.
- Against the background of partial epileptic seizures with secondary generalization.
- For the treatment and prevention of bipolar affective disorder.
The cost of this Indian counterpart is about three hundred rubles.
The medicine "Depakine"
The drug "Depakine" is used to treat focal and generalized epilepsy, especially in the presence of the following types of seizures: myoclonic, small, clonic or atonic. This drug is also used for focal epilepsy against the background of the development of simple or more complex seizures. The price of this drug ranges from six hundred to one thousand rubles.
The analogue of the drug "Ospolot"
Indications for use of this analogue are the following diseases and conditions:
- For the treatment of partial epileptic seizures.
- As part of the treatment of Rolandic epilepsy in childhood.
- In order to treat generalized epilepsy, however, in this case, the drug is less effective.
- Against the backdrop of complex partial paroxysms.
- In the case of benign partial epilepsy.
- In the case of Landau syndrome.
- Against the background of the Lennox pseudosyndrome.
- In the case of West syndrome.
- Against the background of epileptic electrical status during a period of slow sleep.
It is worth noting that the drug "Ospolot" is more effective in the presence of partial rather than generalized epilepsy. In the course of studies, it was found to have a positive effect on the body in the presence of complex partial paroxysms in patients. Recent studies confirm the effectiveness of sultiam (the active substance "Ospolota") in the development of benign partial epilepsy. At the moment, sultiam is mainly used for the treatment of benign partial epilepsy with temporal adhesions, and in addition, with Landau's syndrome. This analogue is also prescribed for symptomatic partial epilepsy.
Unfortunately, this is an effective and efficient German-made drug is very expensive. Its price reaches ten thousand rubles.
The drug "Pantogam"
The drug "Pantogam" is another substitute for "Suksilep." And unlike the original, this medication is used to treat a much larger number of diseases and abnormalities. Indications for use of this drug are:
- Cognitive impairment in the presence of organic brain lesions. Including this drug is taken against the background of the effects of neuroinfections and brain injuries, and in addition, with a neurotic disorder.
- Against the background of schizophrenia with cerebral organic insufficiency.
- In the presence of cerebrovascular insufficiency caused by atherosclerotic changes in the vessels of the brain.
- Against the background of extrapyramidal disorders, including in the presence of myoclonic epilepsy and hepatolenticular degeneration.
- In the case of Parkinson's disease.
- For the treatment and prevention of akinetic extrapyramidal syndrome, which is caused by the use of antipsychotics.
- Against the background of epilepsy with mental retardation as part of a comprehensive treatment with anticonvulsants.
- In the event of psychoemotional overload and decreased mental performance.
- In order to improve concentration and remembering.
- In the presence of neurogenic disorders of urination against the background of pollakiuria, peremptory urge, peremptory urinary incontinence and the like.
- Children with perinatal encephalopathy and mental retardation of varying severity.
- With developmental delay, be it mental, speech or motor lag with various forms of cerebral palsy.
- Against the background of hyperkinetic disorder and in the presence of hyperactivity disorder with a lack of attention.
- Against the background of neurosis-like conditions during stuttering, mainly of the clonic form and in the presence of ticks.
This universal analogue of Suksilep Russian production will cost consumers four hundred rubles.
Analogue "Lamictal"
Lamictal is used as part of multicomponent treatment of focal seizures, including asthmatic epilepsy, which can occur in adults and adolescents. For children aged two to twelve years, Lamiktal is prescribed as an additional drug to eliminate convulsive syndrome.
This medication is prescribed for the treatment of typical absences. The medication is very effective in stopping depression with bipolar mental disorder in people over eighteen years old. The cost of this analogue ranges from five hundred to one thousand rubles.
Reviews about "Suksilep" and analogues are presented below.
Reviews on this drug
Reviews about medications are mostly positive. "Suksilep" and its analogues effectively help cope with convulsive syndrome in epilepsy and other brain diseases. Well tolerated, rarely provoke side effects. The main thing is to follow the instructions.