Dilantyn (phenytoin) question…

 A friend is taking Dilantyn and I’m worried about the side effects of it….
 I’d like to be able to tell him why he should stop it, so any help would be
 appreciated…
   Thanx in advance
      ANG

One Response to “Dilantyn (phenytoin) question…”

  1. admin says:

    In article <3020j8$…@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au>,
    ANG LITA R <u9306…@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au> wrote:

    > A friend is taking Dilantyn and I’m worried about the side effects of it….
    > I’d like to be able to tell him why he should stop it, so any help would be
    > appreciated…

    If it’s been prescribed for him for a seizure disorder, you should most
    definitely not try to tell him to stop it!  If he’s stumbled upon one of
    those nonsense "smart drugs" books which tries to make a case for Dilantin
    increasing intelligence, and then started self-medicating, that’s a different
    story.  The drug has side effects which may be acceptible if the alternative
    is recurrent seizures, but there’s no good evidence that it makes healthy
    people think more clearly; if anything, it works the other way.


    Steve Dyer
    d…@ursa-major.spdcc.com

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