The Application of Salt Valproate in Psychiatry Based on Drug Gender Selection: Narrative Review

“Gender selection” is an important characteristic of drugs and is one of the important principles that doctors must follow when prescribing drugs. As an anti-epileptic drug, valproic acid is a classic mood stabilizer in psychiatry, and its use is widespread in addition to the treatment of bipolar disorder. However, many psychiatrists do not pay enough attention to the sex choice of valproate, for example, when adolescent girls are given too much valproate for a long time, which can cause serious problems, which is also called drug-borne illness. In order to achieve both treatment, and reasonable to avoid side effects is the highest level of treatment, especially when the drug has a gender-selective properties, more attention should be paid.