The client tells the nurse that she has been prescribed phenytoin for 2 years and is still having too many side effects. She wants to stop taking it. The best response by the nurse is: to advice the patience not to suddenly stop the ingestion of the drug as it may lead to withdrawal seizures.
In the treatment of epilepsy, phenytoin is used to manage seizures (convulsions), including tonic-clonic (grand mal) and psychomotor (temporal lobe) seizures.
It's also used to prevent and treat seizures caused by brain surgery.
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