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Why Depecote Level Needs Checking After Lung Collapse And Ammonia Level Of 63?

my 24 year old daughter has been hospitalized for a callapsed lung .now she back in the hosp today the dr told me her ammonia is 63 she has been taking depecote for 23 years now.she has mental tetardation was diagnosed originally with partial genisus of the corpus collusum..shes running high fevers off and on and high platlet counts.now the dr want to check her depecote levels?
Mon, 18 Aug 2014
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Depekote is having sodium valproate and used for bipolar disorder, epilepsy etc. It has hepatic metabolism. In rare case this can cause hepatic side effects. Might be due to this reason ammonia has been checked by your doctor. And regarding fever, I think collapsed lung with secondary infectioncan cause fever. Consult pulmonologist for this. And in anti epileptic drugs we should check drug levels as and when indicated.as anti epileptic drugs have many interaction with other drugs.
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Why Depecote Level Needs Checking After Lung Collapse And Ammonia Level Of 63?

Depekote is having sodium valproate and used for bipolar disorder, epilepsy etc. It has hepatic metabolism. In rare case this can cause hepatic side effects. Might be due to this reason ammonia has been checked by your doctor. And regarding fever, I think collapsed lung with secondary infectioncan cause fever. Consult pulmonologist for this. And in anti epileptic drugs we should check drug levels as and when indicated.as anti epileptic drugs have many interaction with other drugs.