Aims of Dog Epilepsy Treatment (what to do when the meds don't work) - Dog Health Vet Advice

Epilepsy is distressing enough without the treatment not working. But what are the aims of treatment and what are your options if your dog's treatment is not stopping their seizures?
There are a number of different dog seizure causes. For a young dog with repeated seizures, with no problems on bloods, with no access to any toxins and who's fine between seizures, the cause of seizures is most likely to be epilepsy.
it's important to say that the aims of epilepsy treatment is to reduce seizure frequency and reduce seizure severity. So we're not necessarily trying to eliminate all seizures. Although that would be nice, it's not something that we're going to realistically be able to achieve in every epileptic dog.
If anti-seizure medication is not working, and the dose has been checked then a new drug can be added to the treatment plan, or the drug used can be completely changed to something different.

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