Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  In this series of patients, severe psychological disturbances were observed in 4 patients, with 2 cases of myoclonic jerking; one patient developed grand mal seizures. More frequent central nervous system symptoms were sedation (53%), elation (32%), confusion (30%), perception distortions (23%) and depression (19%) (Devine et al, 1987). THC was an effective antiemetic agent against various antineoplastic chemotherapeutic agents in a prospective, randomized, and double-blind study. | | Allergic reactions have been reported, including abdominal pain, asthma, decreased memory, diarrhea, dyspnea, facial itch, facial swelling, gastrointestinal upset, grand mal seizures, headache, hypereosinophilia, hypotension, nausea, pruritus, sore throat, and stridor.
As its name suggests, bee pollen contains large amounts of pollen—a known allergen—from varying sources. Individuals allergic to airborne pollens should exercise caution when ingesting large amounts of bee pollen since it can retain its allergenic potential, as demonstrated in a recent study using skin prick testing (SPT). |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts |  Case Study: Stan—Grand Mai Seizures
/ had grand mal seizures, about one a year, before therapy. I would have smaller seizures all of the time and also while sleeping. I would bite through my tongue. When I would wake up from a seizure my muscles would be sore to the point that I couldn't stand up and my stomach would burn. My whole body would ache and I was completely exhausted and hurt. The recovery period was typically about a week. I couldn't talk because of a swollen tongue due to the biting. I would have this feeling in my head that I can't even describe. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It's an effective medicine for treating grand mal seizures and is also used to treat partial seizures and to prevent seizures in people who have had brain surgery or a head injury.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's side effects include low blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms, slurred speech, and blurred vision. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Later that month, she had four grand mal seizures and was taken to the emergency department at the hospital. When I got there she wasn't expected to make it. The ER doctor told me that he did not think my mom had even had her Dilantin the past few days because her level was so low. The next day I learned she had been given generic phenytoin instead of Dilantin for the last few days. I am convinced that is why she suffered seizures.
This is not the only report we have received about generic phenytoin. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Phenytoin is one of the drugs used to treat grand mal seizures. As with many other drugs, we can't pinpoint the exact mechanism(s) it employs to quell seizures. We do know that it changes the way electrolytes are handled in the nervous system, as well as the relative amounts of several amino acids. It also has some effects on the fats that reside in cell walls, which may help to "calm" the cells, and it changes the way serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine are released and accepted within the brain. | | In addition to partial seizures, phenobarbital is approved for the treatment of grand mal seizures and for use as a sedative.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's side effects include fainting, lethargy, and a slow heartbeat. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
Scientific testing to establish aspartame's safety prior to FDA approval resulted in brain tumors and grand mal seizures in rat studies, and depression, menstrual irregularities, constipation, headaches, tiredness, and general swelling in human test groups. Furthermore, during human evaluations, two of the subjects underwent cancer operations.
- Debra Lynn Dadd, Home Safe Home
Before it is absorbed, aspartame also produces formaldehyde and methyl alcohol in the intestines. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Grand mal seizures?"
"Yeah, but they're not so bad anymore, and don't last as long. My parents say when I first started having them it was really scary, and they lasted a long time."
"You said nothing specific is bothering you— but can you give me any more details at all?"
"Well . . . maybe it's a matter of not as much energy as I think I should have at my age ... or maybe as much as my friends have. And I just don't seem to have the drive, you know what I mean? I'm single, and all my single guy friends are working really hard trying to get ahead. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | There are grand mal seizures, petit mal seizures, and more.
All of this terminology is more than medical hairsplitting, for different types of seizures are best treated by different drugs.
Carbamazepine is looked on as a drug of choice for partial seizures. A relative of certain antidepressants, it is also used for bipolar depression, as well as mania. In fact, it is sometimes used in place of lithium when that drug is not working well enough. It may also be used to treat those suffering from certain types of pain. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | The unknowing consumption of aspartame, whether by ingestion or the chewing of gum, predictably triggered subsequent grand mal seizures. The amount of aspartame ingested in some patients was remarkably small. This is illustrated by (1) an infant who developed convulsions when his nursing mother drank an aspartame soft drink, and (2) a young woman believed to have aspartame-related epilepsy who convulsed within minutes after chewing one piece of "sugar-free" gum.
- H. J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame: Is It Safe? |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These are called grand mal seizures. Actually, most grand mal seizures begin as silent seizures originating in a single focus and rapidly spread to the entire brain.
A seizure, or convulsion, as they are sometimes called, is really a symptom and not a disease in itself. It just indicates that something has gone awry within the brain. Sometimes the seizure is triggered by a small scar caused by an injury, a brain tumor, or an abnormal collection of blood vessels (called an arteriovenous malformation). |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
See book keywords and concepts | | Withdrawal symptoms may include anxiety, sensory disturbances, sleeping too much, flulike symptoms, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, restlessness, loss of appetite, dizziness, sweating, vomiting, insomnia, irritability, nausea, headache, muscle tension or cramping, tremor, vocal changes, confusion, abnormal perception, depersonalization, muscle twitches, psychosis, paranoid delusions, hallucinations, memory impairment, and grand mal seizures. If you have been using benzodiazepines for a while, decrease the dosage gradually. |
David Bodanis
See book keywords and concepts |  Not wild twitchings, not grand mal seizures or Ray Charles stomping, but little gestures, weight readjustments, knee stretches, slow-motion two-steps, and, crudest of all to the carpet, full-weight, single-footed shuffles.
A shuffling guest will lean on one foot, jam it into the carpet, and then, without even thinking, without guilt, without contemplating an offer for carpet replacement costs, will rotate his entire body weight through several radians of a circle on top of that pivot. Think of what that does to the fibers underneath. |
Robert Whitaker
See book keywords and concepts |  When employed, it should be rather vigorous—two to four grand mal seizures a day for the first two days, depending upon the result."30
About 25 percent of their padents never progressed beyond this inidal stage of recovery and had to remain institutionalized. Some became disruptive again and underwent a second and even a third surgery; each time Freeman and Watts would disconnect a larger section of their frontal lobes. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  What drug does:
• Decreases the frequency of partial seizures that start in a localized part of the brain, including those that progress into more generalized grand mal seizures.
• Decreases seizure activity and improves quality of life in children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Continued next column
OVERDOSE
SYMPTOMS:
Gastric distress, increased heart rate. WHAT TO DO:
Overdose unlikely to threaten life. If person takes much larger amount than prescribed, call doctor, poison center 1-800-222-1222 or hospital emergency room for instructions. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Actually, most grand mal seizures begin as silent seizures originating in a single focus and rapidly spread to the entire brain.
A seizure, or convulsion, as they are sometimes called, is really a symptom and not a disease in itself. It just indicates that something has gone awry within the brain. Sometimes the seizure is triggered by a small scar caused by an injury, a brain tumor, or an abnormal collection of blood vessels (called an arteriovenous malformation). |
Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
See book keywords and concepts |  Seizures with loss of consciousness are called grand mal seizures.
What Causes Seizures?
The most common causes of seizures that I have observed in my clinical practice are estrogen dominance, excess intake of unsaturated fatty acids, and the use of aspartame (NutraSweet?, monosodium gluta-mate (MSG), and other "excitatory" amino acids. Other causes include fluoride toxicity, blood sugar problems, nutritional deficiencies, structural problems, and, in infants, a sharp rise in body temperature. | | Success Story:
Ending Six Years of Grand Mai Seizures
James, 47, had suffered from grand mal seizures for six years. They usually happened when he was sleeping and were followed by intense headaches, nausea, disorientation, and incontinence. James reported feeling dizzy and disoriented even without recent seizures, and he felt his behavior was erratic.
Urinalysis and palpation indicated that he was hypothyroid plus severely sugar intolerant (unable to digest disaccharides such as sucrose, lactose, and maltose into simple sugars such as glucose, fructose, and others). |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Fran experienced several grand mal seizures. (Her mother's demands for answers were never even acknowledged.) She listed the drug side effects as: total deprivation of sleep, radical rise in depression, increase in muscle spasms (severe and prolonged) in L4-5 back, increase in spasms in left hip, increase in pain in both legs, decreased sensation in both feet, increase in (severe and prolonged) headaches, diarrhea, dehydration, total loss of appetite and alternating chills and sweating. [How many symptoms of the toxic condition, the serotonin syndrome, did you count? |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  People had a variety of reactions, including grand mal seizures, cardiac irregularities, and even several stillbirths. Next the dangers of alar in apples were exposed. In 1987, the National Academy of Sciences concluded that in our lifetime pesticides in American food may cause more than one million additional cases of cancer in the United States. Laurie Mott and Karen Snyder of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reported in the Amicus Journal that each year 2. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Such muscle breakdown can occur due to ingestion of alcohol and certain drugs, including phenothiazines and illicit drugs, such as phencyclidine (PCP) and cocaine, and as a result of a severe crush injury, an electrical injury, or grand mal seizures. Myoglobin can also be released after carbon monoxide, copper sulfate, or zinc phosphate poisoning.
Certain foods can change the urine's color as a harmless effect. For example, beets, rhubarb, and blackberries can turn it red. |
Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
See book keywords and concepts | | This positive outcome is a confirmation of the alternative medicine view that, when given the proper nutrition and the correct enzymes to ensure digestion, absorption, and assimilation, the body can heal itself, even of a severe disorder such as grand mal seizures. ilie uctunieiii iu uc iiiiuiciiiciucu iui acuuica ucucnua un uic underlying cause. Proper diet and enzyme therapy are necessary to prevent and eliminate seizures due to sugar intolerance, while progesterone supplementation is recommended for those due to estrogen dominance. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
See book keywords and concepts |  Although effective in grand mal seizures, the trials were abandoned due to incidence of side effects (mainly skin problems) when used long term and in high doses. No efficacy was observed with petit mal.69-70
In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of 40 patients with neurovegetative symptoms associated with menopause, standardized kava extract
(210 mg kava lactones per day for 8 weeks) produced a significant reduction in anxiety (p<0.01), depression, severity of symptoms and menopausal symptoms. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  What was really going on was that I was having the most severe sort of epileptic seizures - called grand mal seizures. The force of the muscular contractions during these seizures are powerful enough to dislocate joints and even fracture bones, but seizures were something my doctor never considered because he figured I made the whole story up, since I had been previously diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  People subject to grand mal seizures probably should continue some level of medication on a lifetime basis. The goal of herbal therapy should not be to eliminate prescription drugs entirely, but to control seizures on lower doses and minimize their side effects.
þ There are some studies that indicate that the amino acid taurine and the hormone melatonin may offer some benefits. Taurine is a sulfur-based amino acid and one of the most abundant in the body, especially in the excitable tissues of the central nervous system. |
H.J. Roberts, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Two women (both nurses) developed grand mal seizures after drinking small amounts of alcohol and considerable aspartame-containing beverages.
Aspartame products may render young children more vulnerable to seizures. For example, a two-year-old with fever suffered seizures within ten minutes after chewing aspartame-sweetened acetaminophen (a commonly used substitute for aspirin). This consideration may be significant to health-conscious mothers who elect to give their infants health products containing aspartame rather than sugar (such as vitamins) in an effort to prevent tooth decay. | | A 29-year-old businessman sought consultation because of recurrent grand mal seizures over an 18-month period. He had begun drinking considerable amounts of diet soft drinks and eating other aspartame products six months before the first convulsion. He suffered five major attacks even while on relatively large doses of phenytoin and carbama-zepine. Other complaints included frequent bowel movements, severe fatigue (even after a full night's sleep), pathologic drowsiness, and a 30-pound weight gain. He neither smoked nor drank alcohol. | | During a Searle sponsored monkey test, all the animals receiving medium or high doses of NutraSweet experienced grand mal seizures (Doc #28). Searle never performed autopsies. The FDA said Searle made at least four false statements and entries in the report of the study (Doc #1). Though the FDA later claimed it did not rely on the study to prove safety, the seizures were never explained. Failure to account for these seizures is of particular significance given current concerns expressed in the scientific community on precisely this issue."
• Dr. M. | | A secretary with headaches, personality changes, and multiple grand mal seizures attributed to aspartame wrote:
"Naturally, I am angry now. I have been through a terrible physical shock. My husband has been put through mental anguish—he still has nightmares about that night (of my first convulsion). And I am afraid to be alone for fear I might have another attack and there would be no one to help me. I know I'll eventually get over that, but it's a very frightening thing. |
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