Does phenobarbital used for febrile seizures cause sleep disturbances?
| Autor: | Ta Chuan Chen, Jacqueline R. Farwell, Stephen Sulzbacher, Jonas H. Ellenberg, Deborah Hirtz, Karin B. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Sleep Wake Disorders Placebo Seizures Febrile law.invention Double-Blind Method Developmental Neuroscience Randomized controlled trial Recurrence law medicine Humans Wakefulness Infant Sleep in non-human animals Sleep time Sleep patterns Neurology Child Preschool Phenobarbital Anesthesia Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Sleep Stages Neurology (clinical) Psychology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Neurology. 9:94-100 |
| ISSN: | 0887-8994 |
| Popis: | The effect of phenobarbital on total sleep time, night awakenings, and lengthy awakenings was examined as part of a randomized trial of children with febrile seizures; information about sleep patterns was gathered by parental observation. Children were between ages 8–36 months at enrollment and were examined subsequently for 212 years. Night awakenings were not more common in children assigned to phenobarbital except for those who were poor sleepers at the beginning of the study. Total sleep time was no different in children assigned to phenobarbital than in those assigned to placebo. It is concluded that sleep problems reported in most young children with febrile seizures treated with phenobarbital did not exceed those reported in children treated with placebo, but a subset of predisposed children did experience an increase in night awakenings. |
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