Can Marijuana Cure Seizures? Boy Suffering From Epilepsy Treated With Cannabis Oil
"Can cannabis be helpful in controlling seizures? This has been a pertinent question throughout the years and numerous studies and researches have been conducted to prove the worth of medical marijuana.
Now, there is evidence whether marijuana can be helpful in treating epilepsy and control seizures, also in difficult to control conditions like Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in children and adults as well as Dravet syndrome in children.
An 11-year-old boy suffering from epilepsy, who became the first patient with the condition to be prescribed cannabis oil and began treatment in the United States in 2016, has been seizure-free for 300 days since being under the treatment. Earlier he used to suffer from potentially 30 fatal seizures a month, his mother Charlotte said, the Independent reported Thursday.
Billy Caldwell, whose intractable epilepsy meant he was unable to get help through medication or diet, started receiving the medical marijuana treatment in the U.S. and then his prescription was transferred to his local general practitioner in the U.K. His doctor, Dr. Brendan O’Hare in Northern Ireland prescribed cannabis oil to the boy and described his situation as “unique.”
“Whatever the rights and wrongs, we had a child who had benefitted and the child’s welfare was paramount. On that basis I issued a prescription,” Dr. Hare told Mirror.co.uk.
The medicine prescribed to Billy, which contains a compound found in cannabis plants called Cannabidiol (CBD), does not consist of any synthetics or chemicals. CBD does not cause the psychoactive effects of getting high like Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, and therefore has some positive effects on certain body systems and has been found to help in controlling seizures."
http://www.ibtimes.com/can-marijuana-cure-seizures-boy-suffering-epilepsy-treated-cannabis-oil-2587566
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