[Anticonvulsants and simultaneous medication - a problem in pregnancy (author's transl)].

As more recent investigations have shown, many women regularly take drugs not prescribed by the doctor during pregnancy, in addition to those that are. It is not always a matter of diseases which require treatment. It is shown, with reference to a number of patients, that unproblematic longterm anticonvulsant therapy - with years practically free from attack - can be complicated by pregnancy. During an essential treatment with multiple drugs made necessary by the pregnancy, 6 attacks of grand mal were recorded in 6 months and sometimes very low serum DPH concentrations were found in spite of reliable, high doses of Zentropil.