[Medical treatment of pediatric epilepsy].

The aim of the medical treatment of childhood epilepsy is to control seizures as best as possible without any significant adverse event. Treatment includes classical and new antiepileptic drugs and ketogenic diet as well The drug(s) selected is dependent on the epilepsy syndrome: the same drug may completely control seizures in a given syndrome, but aggravate them in another one. Drug-drug interact ons must be taken into account when polytherapy is needed because doses need to be modified. The treatment of childhood epilepsy is different from that of adult epilepsy because many epilepsy syndromes are specifically paediatric and maturational process requires to prescribe these drugs according to age and weight.