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Antiepileptic not found: Giulia Foïs denounces a worrying situation for patients

5/9/2023, 7:25:25 PM

Highlights: France Inter's Giulia Foïs has a fight to fight over Sabril, an anticonvulsant. Sabril is associated with three other molecules. The national agency for drug safety evokes "supply tensions" since early January. The journalist tells us about her fear of seeing her 6-year-old son convulse again, and how Sabril has helped him avoid seizures since he was 20 months old. She only has a few minutes left before he taps his show. Just fifteen.


On Twitter, the journalist expressed her anger at her difficulties in sourcing Sabril, an anticonvulsant whose f

He only has a few minutes left before he taps his show. Just fifteen. But before talking about feminism on France Inter, Giulia Foïs has another fight to fight. At the end of the line, machine gun and angry, the journalist tells us about her fear of mother. That of seeing his son Isaac, 6 years old, convulse again. Epileptic since he was twenty months old because of an accident she does not want to tell, the little boy avoids seizures thanks to Sabril, associated with three other molecules. Except that today, this treatment, without alternative, is almost impossible to find in "500 mg". The national agency for drug safety evokes "supply tensions" since early January. One more on the list.

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