Seizure Medications that contain Aluminum

 Seizure medications that contain aluminum

Some seizure medications contain aluminum as an ingredient (magnesium aluminum silicate) or as a dye (FD&C blue #2 or aluminum lake). 

Here is a list of medications that contain aluminum. 

Please verify your medication at this website as ingredients can change and sometimes vary based on the manufacturer. 

Please look under description and ingredients for the information on aluminum lake. 

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This list is not a complete list. There may be other seizure medications which contain aluminum. Please use this website to look up the medication you are interested in learning about. Make sure you check both the description of the drug and the ingredient list as I found one drug that had the aluminum listed in the description but not the ingredients.

Seizure medications that contain magnesium aluminum silicate as an inactive ingredient. 

Liquid Onfi – magnesium aluminum silicate - Some of the Onfi tablets

 Lamogtrigine or Lamictal– tablets for supsension 2 mg, 5 mg and 25 mg contains Magnesium Aluminum Silicate Tablet, Orally disintegrating 25mg, 50mg, 100mg, 200 mg contains no Magnesium Aluminum Silicate Tablets 25 mg 100 mg 150 mg 200 mg no aluminium 

Clobazam Solution Magnesium aluminum silicate 

Seizure medications which contain aluminum lake in the dye 

Lamitcal XR 200 mg and 250 mg contain FD&C blue #2 

Vimpat 200 mg and 50 mg – aluminium lake dye 

Zonisamide – the capsule contains Aluminum Lake – can take the powder out – one parent mixes it with maple syrup and puts it in a syringe 

Fycompa – Perampanel 10 mg and 12 mg contain FD&C blue #2 

Keppra 250 mg contains FD&C blue #2 

Keppra 750 mg contains Aluminum Oxide 

Levetiracetam 250 mg tablets: Opadry Yellow (hypromellose 3cP, hypromellose 6cP, titanium dioxide, polyethylene glycol 4000, iron oxide yellow and FD&C Blue #2/indigo carmine aluminum lake). 

Epilim (Sodium Valproate) crushable tablets contain Kaolin light Kalolin is a clay which contains aluminum the highest chemical stability against acid attack amongst all clay minerals 

Ethosuximide 250 mg capsule under description “Each ethosuximide capsule intended for oral administration contains 250 mg of ethosuximide, USP and contains the following inactive ingredients: FD&C red # 40 aluminum lake, FD&C yellow # 6 aluminum lake, gelatin, glycerin, light mineral oil, methyl”