Epilepsy

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Some have mistakenly convinced people to go off their meds; don't do that; people can die from seizures.

Create a food diary to see if a particular food or additive is causive: aspartame, msg, wheat, etc.

We have one story about a boy who outgrew his epilepsy. That doesn't give anybody a place to start or questions to ask the doctor....So we offer this link: http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info and  http://www.webmd.com/epilepsy/default.htm   and   http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/pedneuro/epilepsy.htm

Kitchen Remedies and Natural Cures for Epilepsy
Coconut Oil 4 Tablespoons daily. Coconut Oil is considered a cure-all remedy.

cranial adjustments One man said it ended his seizures. Another man said that he had a seizure during the adjustment but then never had another seizer again.

magnesium from easy sources like Epsom Salts or Crystal Geizer Mineral Water. Soak in a bath of epsom salts.

ice at base of brain to stop a seizure attack (Some try this while waiting for the paramedics to arrive.)

Fasting

Ancient Greek physicians treated diseases, including epilepsy, by altering their patients' diet. An early treatise in the Hippocratic Corpus, On the Sacred Disease, documents epilepsy; it dates from c. 400 BC. Its author argued against the prevailing view that epilepsy was supernatural in origin, and proposed that dietary therapy had a rational and physical basis. In the same collection, (the author of) Epidemics describes the case of a man whose epilepsy was cured by complete abstinence of food and drink (fasting). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet

Ketogenic Diet

A boy cured of epilepsy: In 1997, Jim Abrahams produced a TV movie, (about his own son) ...First Do No Harm, starring Meryl Streep, in which a young boy's uncontrolable epilepsy was successfully treated by the ketogenic diet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet Also see: http://www.webmd.com/epilepsy/the-ketogenic-diet

Some clinicians use two less restrictive dietary variants: 1) the low glycemic index treatment and the modified Atkins diet—to be more appropriate for adolescents and adults. 2) A liquid form of the ketogenic diet which is easy to prepare and well tolerated by infants on formula and children who are tube-fed.

Medium-chain triglyceride (MCT Oils) diet

Coconut Oil is an MCT. Buy a name brand. In 1971, Peter Huttenlocher devised a ketogenic diet where about 60% of the calories came from the MCT oil, and this allowed more protein and up to three times as much carbohydrate as the classic ketogenic diet. The oil was mixed with at least twice its volume of skimmed milk, chilled, and sipped during the meal or incorporated into food.

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