Parents May Overestimate Marijuana's Effects on Kids' Seizures

[OZ Stoners]

In a recent trend, parents of children with some forms of epilepsy are giving marijuana to their children in hopes of alleviating the seizures, but researchers say cannabis is not a proven treatment for childhood epilepsy, and people should wait for rigorous studies to decide whether the drug is safe or effective.

 

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[Faith]

Oh of course silly parents.  Fuck YOu pharma devil.

[Matanuska Thunder]

In a recent trend, parents of children with some forms of epilepsy are giving marijuana to their children in hopes of alleviating the seizures, but researchers say cannabis is not a proven treatment for childhood epilepsy, and people should wait for rigorous studies to decide whether the drug is safe or effective.

 

meanwhile the kids deteriorate to the vegetative state...

 

I have met three families that did not wait for those silly studies, and because of them taking a chance with medical cannabis, their kids are now thriving...

it takes less than a week to see if canna would be effective in reducing seizures, kinda like most pharma drugs... one size does not fit all

(seems 30% of kids will have an improvement on canna, that's not a bad odds ratio)

 

Wait for these "studies" and watch your child die a slow, painful death or give cannabis a try.

I know which one I would choose.

[pegz]

"From a physician standpoint, it's kind of daunting because we don't know anything about it," Chapman said. "We don't know about side effects, we don't know about drug interactions, we don't know whether it works or not."

 

No parent is waiting for the approval of these fools when their child is at risk of dying from a seizure.

 

 

The third study is a case report of a family who began giving CBD to their 4-year-old boy with Doose Syndrome, a type of epilepsy that causes classic shaking as well as jerking muscles during seizures.

The boy had at least 10 seizures a day, said Dr. Jeffrey Gold, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, and a neurologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego. When the boy started CBD, his seizures initially got worse. But it turned out the CBD was increasing the child's blood levels of valproic acid, another anti-seizure medication he was taking.

Doctors immediately reduced the child's valproic acid medication, and he continued to take CBD. Within four months, the boy's seizures disappeared, which was confirmed with EEGs.

"We don't know why that happened," Gold said. "Maybe it was the valproic acid. Maybe it was the cannabinoid."

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/parents-may-overestimate-marijuanas-effects-kids-seizures-204249292.html#1PBI0Wb

 

Bloody useless, what can they tell us with any certainty?

 

"Needs more research." Yeah, fuck off.

[brick]

They are getting worried these co's. And so they fucking should. After all the years of feeding the public bullshit they are about to be proven wrong. Some of their drugs have caused more harm than good. Stilnox is a perfect example. They are assuming all parents who medicate their epileptic children are fuck wits.

And if cannabis had never been made illegal, the research would have been done and dusted years ago. I am so sick and tired of where our great planet is heading. Wish my heart was 100% cos I would seriously think about getting into politics.