{"id":27893,"date":"2020-07-12T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T06:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=27893"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:21:24","slug":"lamotrigine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamotrigine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"group w-full text-token-text-primary border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]\">\n<div class=\"flex p-4 gap-4 text-base md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl md:py-6 lg:px-0 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-3 overflow-x-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light AIPRM__conversation__response\">\n<p>Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It&#8217;s possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal. A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy. An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy. Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lamotrigine - Definition of Lamotrigine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It&#039;s possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lamotrigine - Definition of Lamotrigine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It&#039;s possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Glossary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-12T06:17:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-09T10:21:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Glossary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Glossary\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/\",\"name\":\"Lamotrigine - Definition of Lamotrigine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-12T06:17:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-09T10:21:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef987a4882e6356ae6d77d33e74c5\"},\"description\":\"An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It's possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lamotrigine\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/\",\"name\":\"Glossary\",\"description\":\"Difinitions\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef987a4882e6356ae6d77d33e74c5\",\"name\":\"Glossary\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lamotrigine - Definition of Lamotrigine","description":"An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It's possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lamotrigine - Definition of Lamotrigine","og_description":"An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It's possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/","og_site_name":"Glossary","article_published_time":"2020-07-12T06:17:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-09T10:21:24+00:00","author":"Glossary","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Glossary","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/","url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/","name":"Lamotrigine - Definition of Lamotrigine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-07-12T06:17:50+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-09T10:21:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef987a4882e6356ae6d77d33e74c5"},"description":"An anticonvulsant medication sometimes used in psychiatry to prevent or treat the symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder. Marketed under the brand name lamictal.A drug that helps to control petit mal epilepsy.An antiepileptic drug for the treatment of patients with epilepsy.Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant medication, is employed either independently or in conjunction with other anticonvulsants for managing epilepsy. It's possible for lamotrigine to induce minor side effects like rash, nausea, headache, and blurred vision. In rare instances, particularly among children, severe skin reactions might occur. Furthermore, flu-like symptoms, bruising, sore throat, and facial swelling may also manifest, necessitating timely reporting to a medical professional.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/lamotrigine\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lamotrigine"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/","name":"Glossary","description":"Difinitions","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/#\/schema\/person\/ccfef987a4882e6356ae6d77d33e74c5","name":"Glossary","url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236420,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions\/236420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}