Lynne McTaggart
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 He injected a batch of laboratory rats with lithium pilocarpine, which causes epileptic-like seizures in the rodents, and compared the timing of the onset of seizures about an hour after the onset of laboratory-simulated increased geomagnetic activity.21 From this Persinger inferred that above a certain threshold of geomagnetic activity, epilepsy is more likely to be triggered. Whenever geomagnetic activity exceeded 20 nanoteslas, seizures would occur more frequently. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 At its worst, it can cause seizures or eclampsia and significant hematological abnormalities, including loss of the ability to clot blood. Kidney failure can occur. Usually none of these things happen, but because the severity of disease does not predict which women will have seizures, women with preeclampsia require protection against this risk with magnesium sulfate that is given during labor and for 24 hours afterward.
Mild forms of preeclampsia are treated with bedrest. Severe forms are treated with bedrest in the hospital. All efforts are made to avoid delivering babies very prematurely. |
Charles Barber
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 During the midst of all those seizures, his doctor put him on a Ketogenic diet.* Would you believe that his seizures went down to one or two a year? He's attending a special post-high school program. He's really doing okay."
Dr. Lisa Fenton is a pleasant, clear-eyed, sharp-looking woman, perhaps in her late forties. Her office is in a twenty-story apartment building on the farthest reaches of the medical school campus. |
Paul A. Offit, M.D.m Bonnie Fass-Offit, M.D. and Louis M. Bell, M.D.
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 The second is to avoid the seizures that are associated with fever in some children (called febrile seizures). Febrile seizures occur in about three of one hundred young children with fever. Although horrifying for any parent to watch, febrile seizures do not lead to epilepsy or cause permanent brain damage or disabilities. Also, because seizures occur often with the initial rise in temperature at the beginning of an illness, and are not associated with the height of the fever, it is difficult to prevent them with medicines that lower fever. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 You have to understand that if your sugar really were to drop critically low, that would cause seizures and incompatibility with life. That is why your body goes into emergency mode and counters the drop in blood sugar levels by secreting your stress hormones. That is what causes the symptoms of hypoglycemia. So most doctors' ideas of hypoglycemia are about people going into comas and having seizures, and then being able to document it by saying, 'Look, the blood sugar was 30. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 When neurologists hear of weird things happening when a person is falling asleep or awakening, they think of seizures. The neurologist called the cardiologist to discuss this idea with him. The cardiologist dismissed his concerns. So the woman's husband took over the management of his wife's illness. He prescribed an anticonvulsant (a medicine that interferes with seizures), and her bouts of sinus tachycardia stopped cold. He then sent her for brain imaging and was aghast to learn that she had a large brain tumor. |
Marshall Editions
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 Some children may have febrile seizures as a result of this condition. If your child gets such seizures seek medical help immediately.
HOMEOPATHY
Any of the following homeopathic remedies can be helpful, when well indicated, in easing discomfort and speeding up recovery from an acute episode of roseola.
Belladonna: Use this remedy to treat the first, feverish stage of the illness if a raised temperature has developed very rapidly and dramatically. Belladonna is appropriate if the skin is flushed, dry, bright red, and radiates heat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Heat stroke, seizures, autoimmune disorder and multiple sclerosis all are related with this active blood brain barrier.
You're talking about tens of millions of people, and they are out there gobbling up aspartame, MSG and other excitotoxins, and no one is telling them they are making their neurological conditions infinitely worse. I don't know how many seizure patients I've gotten off their medicines by just getting them off MSG and giving them magnesium. They quit having seizures. They were on maximum dosages of medications and still having seizures. |
Charles Barber
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| Instead, Warner-Lambert aggressively marketed the drug for bipolar disorder, various pain disorders, Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), attention deficit disorder, migraine, seizures resulting from drug and alcohol withdrawal, restless-leg syndrome, and as a first-line, single treatment for epilepsy. Among the tactics employed by Warner-Lambert were false claims about Neurontin's efficacy and its approval for off-label uses. |
| When he was younger, he suffered from a terrible seizure disorder, sometimes suffering up to a hundred seizures a day I would get quite anxious, and I catastrophized that as an adult he would never be able to leave home, that he would be socially isolated, that he would never be able to work, and that he would be unhappy. And then, in a systematic way, I would attempt to decata-strophize those thoughts and replace them with more realistic scenarios. I would repeatedly rehearse and summon up an image of him, as a young adult—of him being cared for, of being able to work, of being basically okay. |
Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH
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 Nicotinamide, inosine and hypoxanthine, putative endogenous ligands of the benzodiazepine receptor, opposite to diazepam are much more effective against kynurenine-induced seizures than against pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1981;14:589-93.
26. Markin RS, Murray WJ. Searching for the endogenous benzodiazepine using the graph theoretical approach. Pharm Res 1988;5:408-12.
27. Akhundov RA, Dzhafarova SA, Aliev AN. The search for new anticonvulsant agents based on nicotinamide. Eksp Klin Farmakol 1992;55:27-29.
28. Vescovi PP, Gerra G, Ippolito L, et al. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Higher doses were used for treatment of first trimester morning sickness (25 to 200 mg three times daily), but are not recommended before delivery, as higher doses may shut off breast milk in nursing mothers or cause the baby to have withdrawal seizures if commercial formula is given that does not include enough pyridoxine (B6).41> 42 However, when given during labor, vitamin B6 may prevent many postnatal adaptation problems by increasing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood that supplies the fetus.43
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
Recommended dietary allowance (RDA):
Pregnant: 1. |
| Usually none of these things happen, but because the severity of disease does not predict which women will have seizures, women with preeclampsia require protection against this risk with magnesium sulfate that is given during labor and for 24 hours afterward.
Mild forms of preeclampsia are treated with bedrest. Severe forms are treated with bedrest in the hospital. All efforts are made to avoid delivering babies very prematurely. However, when maternal health is significantly compromised, this measure may need to be taken. When severe, there is no cure for this disorder but delivery. |
Charles Barber
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| Would you believe that his seizures went down to one or two a year? He's attending a special post-high school program. He's really doing okay."
Dr. Lisa Fenton is a pleasant, clear-eyed, sharp-looking woman, perhaps in her late forties. Her office is in a twenty-story apartment building on the farthest reaches of the medical school campus. There aren't many twenty-story apartment buildings in New Haven—or in Connecticut, for that matter—and, if not for the expansive, quiet, and rather tired-looking park outside her window, it would seem that we were somehow in the middle of Manhattan. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Clearly, release is important, and seizures are, in one respect, a release factor. Painkillers and tranquilizers can slow the transmission of the pain message and thereby soften or avoid the seizure altogether. It is not surprising that new research has found that the same drug used to control epilepsy can also control and reduce migraines. It would seem that, in one sense, migraines are a seizure of the blood vessels that constrict and then give way to dilation. In any case, more and more research is finding pain underlying so many disparate symptoms. |
| By throwing away medicine, going straight into my seizures, converting it directly to the [PJrimal feeling, I have gradually discovered the roots of my epilepsy, which now only are a fraction of what it originally was. I now know what it means to have full access to one's feelings with a tremendous spontaneity and capacity to absorb and to enjoy life.
What I have seen in group therapy is an epileptic patient begin to have a seizure and, with our help, turn it into the feeling, usually first-line, behind it. The patient then has the primal instead of the seizure. |
| It will continually exert its force creating, inter alia, addictions, high blood pressure, and seizures. With connection those can often be normalized. To treat behavior—addictionas a thing in itself is never to solve the mystery of neurosis. Stopping drinking alcohol is not a cure; it is simply stopping drinking. Drinking is usually not a disease in itself (Alcoholics Anonymous notwithstanding), it is a symptom of one. We will learn how basic built-in need, when unfulfilled, becomes transformed into the "need for" drugs, food, or alcohol. |
| 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. It was like my head was underwater and I couldn't think clearly, so I usually slept for the first few days after the seizure. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 In small to medium-sized pets, theobromine can cause seizures and even death. Care should be taken that they do not have access to dark chocolate in any form.
What about chocolate and antioxidants, a subject which has been much in the news? Chocolate contains antioxidant flavonoid phenolics, which prevent it from going rancid. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Knowing that Ritalin, Adderall, and a majority of psychiatric drugs worsen seizures, I was constantly chagrined to witness how frequently psychiatrists added such drugs to the anticonvulsants essential for controlling the seizures of epileptic patients. Not only have they come to believe the diagnoses they make are real diseases, they have come to believe that the truck-loads of drugs they wield with such elan, are essential.
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In an October 3,2003, CNN editorial, Lou Dobbs addressed the issue of the epidemic abuse of drugs. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Her "Primals," as we call them, are both of the seizures and then "She doesn't care. There is no help. There's no place to turn." That realization was tremendous pain because it was an augury of her coming life. She almost died. Her mother hardly reacted. The most important thing she gets out of these Primals is that she was never able to express herself. Everything was locked inside; she seemed dead. Now, finally, as she expresses the shock, she can also express herself emotionally. Her face has expression, whereas before it was expressionless and immobile. |
| Klonipin allowed me enough access to start feeling; otherwise I was overloaded (and vulnerable to seizures).
In a session, I would start to cry briefly and then I would start coughing and shaking and I couldn 'tgo back to the feeling. The Klonipin relaxed my body enough so that I could cry for a longer period of time and I could descend from things that bothered me in the present to the same things that bothered me in the past. I cried for one to two hours, twice a week, for three years. The biggest feeling was that everything is hopeless. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Catastrophic outcomes of toxemia include seizures, strokes, and failure of the heart, liver, lungs, or kidneys.
Since preeclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure, it stands to reason that yoga, meditation, and stress reduction techniques would be a useful complement to nutritional, botanical, and conventional medications.
Heartburn, Gas, and Constipation
Hormonal imbalances during pregnancy may result in softening of the smooth muscle found in the walls of the digestive tract. |
Andreas Moritz
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 You need to tell your doctor if you have or previously had liver or kidney disease, a severe infection, low blood pressure, or seizures. How many people actually know if their liver's bile ducts are packed with stones, whether their kidneys have major stone deposits in them, or if their blood pressure is below acceptable?
• Tell your doctor if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become pregnant while taking LIPITOR/Atorvastatin, you are supposed to stop taking this drug and call your doctor immediately as it can harm the fetus. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 I have found that inositol and my GABA supplement Brain Rhythm are the cornerstone treatments for anyone who is prone to seizures. seizures are extremely difficult to control nutritionally, although studies suggest that vitamin E may help. Other nutrients such as vitamin B6, magnesium, and taurine may have some beneficial effects. Common nutrients, such as calcium and magnesium, may also help.
HYPERTENSION
Hypertension is the prime contributor to coronary heart disease and stroke, yet in itself it is often nothing more than irritable vascular syndrome. |
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