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Parents Find Success Treating Kids" Epilepsy, Autism with Cannabis Oil

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by jainaG, Dec 28, 2015.

  1. #1 jainaG, Dec 28, 2015
    http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2015/12/26/parents-find-success-treating-kids-epilepsy-autism-with-cannabis-oil

    http://www.vancouversun.com/health/parents+find+success+treating+kids+epilepsy+autism+with+cannabis/11613340/story.html




    Parents find success treating kids" epilepsy, autism with cannabis oil


    But
    lack of research, poor industry standards and few doctors willing to
    prescribe mean parents left to experiment to find consistent dosages



    By TIFFANY CRAWFORD, VANCOUVER SUN
    December 27, 2015

    Ella
    Turkington, 5, has intractable epilepsy and autism. Her parents Kim and
    Rob Turkington administers cannabidiol (CBD) oil in conjunction with
    her pharmaceuticals - as more families are experimenting with pediatric
    cannabis - to treat her epilepsy.


    Mention Taylor Swift and five-year-old Ella"s eyes light up like the Christmas tree in the corner of her Surrey living room.
    The
    tree scrapes the ceiling, and Ella is eager to play with the
    decorations, but her parents have set up a barricade so she can"t reach
    the branches.
    That"s because the young girl has severe epilepsy
    and autism, and, although she is nearly six, the cognitive ability of a
    toddler.
    She doesn"t seem to mind, as her attention is soon
    diverted to a suggestion that she sing a song by Swift, her favourite
    recording artist.
    Yet the strong-willed Ella has other ideas.
    "Meatballs,” the bright little girl exclaims, and the family launches into a rousing verse of On Top of Spaghetti.
    A
    year ago, Ella would not have been singing about meatballs, giggling as
    she sways her hips to Swift, or scribbling in her Dora the Explorer
    colouring book as she is now.
    She would have slept all day, her
    few precious waking hours spent groggy and depressed because of the
    medication she takes to control more than a hundred seizures a day.
    Ella
    still takes a cocktail of anti-seizure pills, but her parents, Kim and
    Rob Turkington, have added two shots per day of marijuana oil, a
    medicine her parents say has made her more alert, reduced the number and
    severity of seizures, and allowed her to develop speech and other
    cognitive functions.
     

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