Case Study Of Charlotte's First Seizures

One day you decide to drive to an anti-marijuana rally and along the way you end up in a serious car accident that nearly kills you and the other driver. You survived the crash, but you have serious trauma to the head, causing you to have severe brain damage. You recover several months later, but you start experiencing uncontrollable seizures.

This book, as narrated by the author, Anne Fadiman, is about the true story of the life of an epileptic Hmong child named Lia Lee, and her refugee family’s interactions with the American health care system. This child endures agonizing grand mal seizures which ultimately and unfortunately, as a result, led her to become vegetative for the rest of her life. However, the central idea of this story is not entirely about Lia’s severe epilepsy, but how cultural boundaries had prompted to the obstruction of her treatment. Compliance had a major effect on Lia’s life between the doctors and her family, in which this argumentative battle is a way of implicitly revealing the differences in Western and Eastern medication, how the patient is perceived

A two year old, named Jaqie Angel Warrior had been suffering from several types of seizures ever since she was five months old. Doctors had tried many medications to control her seizures, such as klonopin , and depakote; but all failed to stop these thousands of seizures, resulting in terrible side effects. Jaqie’s mother, Brittany had been researching other potential cures, when she came across cannabis oil. Soon after, they moved to a motel in Colorado, and began using high-CBD oil, which also contains high levels of THC. Levels higher than any other states CBD-only bill allows. Since they began using the cannabis oil, Jaqie’s seizures have reduced by 90%, and Brittany ceased use of any dangerous pharmaceuticals. (Patient Success)

A new marijuana-derived drug may treat epileptic children, without the high. Within clinical studies, now researchers are taking statistical data to test 150 children that haven't been helped by standard seizure medications. If Epidiolex proves itself, it will supply additional evidence that marijuana may serve as a potential cornucopia of medical leads to be used for future drug development.

Charlotte experienced serious cognitive delays, brain damage, and had undergone surgery to have a feeding tube placed for food and water. She also had difficulty with walking and talking and must be cared for at all times. She would suffer from 300 tonic seizures per week,

An example of the success of this treatment is a five year old girl who suffered from Dravet’s Syndrome. She would have three hundred episodes weekly, people would normally think that prescribing cannabis to child is complete unacceptable, but in this instance it could not have been a better blessing. The medical marijuana brought down her seizures from three hundred a week to only once. Now forty other children in her state are using the same strand of marijuana to treat their syndromes and it has been a positive outcome.

The article “Marijuana Stops Child’s Severe Seizures” by Saundra Young reveals an unusual solution to a child’s illness. Starting from a young age, Charlotte Figi started getting frequent seizures. The seizures lasted from two to four hours and often required Charlotte to be hospitalized. After doing several tests, the doctors were not able to find the exact cause for Charlotte’s seizures. They eventually diagnosed Charlotte with Dravet Syndrome. Following the diagnosis, the doctors decided to start treatment which proved to be unsuccessful. The next step they took was to implement a ketogenic diet which worked for two years with some side effects. Finally, Charlotte’s parents decided to try using medical marijuana that has low THC levels. The medical marijuana used proved to be successful in reducing Charlotte’s seizures drastically.

Charlotte’s seizures started when she was three months old. She was not diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome until she was 2 ½ years old. Charlie was put on a ketogenic diet which helped decrease the seizures, but it had terrible side effects on her. Two years after starting the diet, the seizures came back and Charlotte’s parents turned to cannabis oil. Charlotte could not walk, talk, and eat until she was started on cannabis oil. She was also suffering from 300 grand mal seizures a week says Brian Resnick, in the article “The Case For Legalizing Medical Cannabis for Kids.” Immediately the cannabis oil took effect and decreased her seizures to just two or three seizures a month. Charlotte began to talk and eat again after taking cannabis oil. Not only did cannabis oil help decrease Charlottes seizures, but it helped take Mykayla off of

Eight-year old Charlotte Figi experienced her first seizure at three months old. While all test results were normal, her seizures were increasing in length as time went on, usually lasting two to four hours. According to the CNN report, “Marijuana Stops Child’s Severe Seizures,” by Saundra Young, she was on seven drugs, including addictive barbiturates and benzodiazepines. Their effects were short-lived as “the seizures always came back with vengeance” (2013). When Charlotte was two, she was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome: a rare genetic form of epileptic encephalopathy that begins in infancy (Epilepsy Foundation). Individuals with this syndrome face a higher chance of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (Dravet Syndrome Foundation). This

Charlotte was 3 months old when the first one struck. The second came just a week later. By 6 months they sent her to the hospital repeatedly. In a frantic search to find what was wrong with their baby girl, her parents Matt and Paige had “a million-dollar work-up” done which consisted of an MRI, EEG, and spinal tap. The results? Nothing. Charlotte’s blood tests and scans were all normal. “It’s probably going to go away,” they said. The family was sent home, but the seizures remained relentless.

I get up at 6:30 am, expecting it just to be a normal summer day.

I believe that many parents wouldn’t allow doctors to use medicinal marijuana on their kids but they should because it works. According to (Rollins & Judy, 2014), “Since he was just a few months old, 10- year-old Zaki Jackson has suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that, at its worst, causes him to have thousands of seizures a day”(p. 59). That is absolutely terrifying and no child should have to go through with that. The family has tried all sorts of treatments like pharmaceutical medications, specialized diets and acupunctures but nothing has worked (Rollins & Judy, 2014, p. 59). These different kinds of treatments caused severe side effects like weight gain, incoherency, very painful cramps, many sleepless nights, and most importantly they didn’t stop the seizures (Rollins & Judy, 2014, p. 60). Zaki’s parents were looking for answers and they finally got some with the use of medicinal marijuana. Rollins & Judy (2014) study found the

Due to its low prevalence, they aren’t able to study enough patients to get any solid results. However, there are some ideas as to what causes the seizures. First of all, it could be genetic. The problem with this theory is that no gene has been found that could link to FIRES. Some scientists think the disease is a result of an autoimmune response, while others think the seizures are caused by a malfunction in the metabolic process of some cells. Both of these theories have little evidence to support them. FIRES could be a result of the febrile illness that comes before the seizures. The idea is that the increased heat in the body results in the mutation of a pathogen. The new pathogen might attack the brain and cause the seizures (Van

Although there is no cure for epilepsy, there are many different drug treatments can be effective in prevention seizures, including benzodiazepines or barbiturates. However, breakthrough seizures are still possible.1 Due to the unpredictable nature of seizures, epileptic patients often experience a lower quality of life since they cannot drive and cannot work in certain job fields. Furthermore, seizures can also lead to many different types of injuries in epileptic patients, some of which could be fatal, such as choking on the tongue. In the United States alone one in twenty-five people suffer from epilepsy.2

One of the main disorders that has been taken over with the CBD industry is epilepsy in children.