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Caffeine can be a trigger, and sugar rushes and crashes are hard on the system too. (If she was drinking Diet coke, the aspartame (Nutrasweet) can also be a seizure trigger.) In addition, the phosphorus in Coke (and other sodas) binds with the body's stores of calcium, magnesium and zinc, and then drains them from the body -- and those nutrients can play crucial roles in protecting the brain and controlling neurotransmission.dont know if this has any influence but she had been drinking lots and lots of cans of coke
Actually it's been used as both an adjunctive and stand-alone med for quite a while. Almost all anti-seizure drugs are first tested and approved as adjunct medicines (rather than stand-alones), because you can't safely swap out one med for another with human subjects. At this point, Keppra is considered safe for monotherapy. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21395360keppra isn't a stand alone drug