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GARDENAL

    Gardenal is recommended for epilepsy patients to relieve anxiety and control seizures or fits. It can also be used to treat patients who are dealing with withdrawal symptoms from an addiction, or acts as a sedative for patients who are about to undergo surgery. It can be taken in the form of tablets (30mg and 60mg) or syrup (100ml). Some side effects include lack of energy, bleeding, depression, skin sores and low blood pressure.
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Gynaecologist•Kolkata
Gardenal definitely has some side effects in baby. But if you stop it, you may get epileptic attack, that is detrimental to you as well as your baby. Hope, your gynaecologist has advised you the number of tests (blood and USG) to detect the defects in the baby (which are very easily detected at this stage)... Now, regarding your previous miscarriage, I don't know if you had undergone investigations to find out the cause of miscarriages (ideally to be done before pregnancy). Now, you don't have m...more
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Veterinarian•Pune
First try to find out cause for epilepsy , by doing blood profile, x rays etc. If ur given gardenal 60 mg do blood gardenal level so according to that u can give proper dose
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Veterinarian•Mohali
Pomerian are by nature are aggressive esp. Crossbreed. According to symptoms ur pet is suffering from Epilepsy. She required right treatment for that. U should get good veterinary help. For now u can give Gardenal 30 mg BID 1 week
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