Re: Seizures and viral infection -- the common cold...

[Guest guest]

This is baffling, but one question came to mind: Are you sure it is a cold?

Why do you think this is a typical rhinovirus? Not being sarcastic, but

serious. What makes you think that this " common cold " is not a symptom of the

seizures instead of the other way around? How often does he have the colds? My

daughter is 9 and she is actually pretty healthy and gets one a year, sometimes

2. If your child is getting what you consider to be an abnormal number of colds

in a year, maybe you have a symptom of an oncoming series of GM seizures. This

could also be significant in his treatment. I don't want to get into his

medical history online, because he deserves privacy, but it would be a good idea

to run a baseline EEG and then run one when you see a " cold " come on. By the

way, I am not a real doctor, just a confused one.

Jeff Cunningham, DC

www.zoesplaceclinic.com

, TX

Seizures and viral infection -- the common

cold...

Hey you real doc's on this list! LOL - real doc's meaning those that actually

research causes and not just treat symptoms...

My son's grand-mal seizures are triggered each time he gets a cold. He

doesn't get them often - but when he does, he always has Grand-mal seizures.

Can anyone explain the mechanism of that? What I might do when I notice a

cold coming on to possibly trigger the seizures?

It has to be more than a coincidence. I chart his seizures, and for the last

couple years, he has only had them when he has had the typical runny, goopy nose

thing going on. No fever, no nothing. Just a cold -then boom - seizures.

Then as quickly as the cold and seizures come on - they stop. The first time

4 years though, the seizures lasted 9 months -- but started with him having a

cold. We had done a viral panel at that time, and it came back high for EBV

and HHV6.

Anyway -- wondering what I might do naturally, if there is anything...

I noticed his nose running yesterday, and really goopy this morning, then

BOOM, seizures today..... No fever, no other symptoms. No diarrhea, -- just

the common cold. Which is viral I believe -- so what sort of natural treatment

or something works like an anti-viral?

M. Guppy

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