Seizure type and patient population | Medications with potential to precipitate or aggravate seizures* |
Generalized-onset tonic-clonic seizures in children and adults | Carbamazepine, phenytoin |
Absence seizures in children | Carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, tiagabine, and vigabatrin |
Absence seizures, myoclonic seizures, and in some cases generalized-onset tonic-clonic seizures in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy | Carbamazepine, gabapentin, lamotrigine¶, oxcarbazepine, phenytoin, tiagabine, vigabatrin |
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