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Food-Triggered Siezures
Sun, 05/18/2008 - 14:10Comments
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by teachergreen on Sat, 2009-10-17 - 13:06
teachergreen
Have you ever heard of Dr. Pepper and dark tea causing seizures? This summer I rarely drank hot tea but drank a Dr. Pepper almost every day. I enjoy the flavor of the drink and I guess I could try eliminating it for a period of time. I'm not sure how long that period would be before I see results-no seizures. I have 4-6 seizures a month.
Anyone out there have seizures because of caffiene?
teachergreen
Have you ever heard of Dr. Pepper and dark tea causing seizures? This summer I rarely drank hot tea but drank a Dr. Pepper almost every day. I enjoy the flavor of the drink and I guess I could try eliminating it for a period of time. I'm not sure how long that period would be before I see results-no seizures. I have 4-6 seizures a month.
Anyone out there have seizures because of caffiene?
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by mattshelley on Mon, 2009-10-19 - 11:49
I'm not sure about Dr. Pepper, but many dark sodas have nutmeg in them, and nutmeg will knock me down in a matter of minutes. I don't have a problem with caffeine, (and hope I never do, coffee is my drug of choice) but I have heard it can be a problem for some other people. It's probably a good idea to avoid anything with the suffix "-ine-" as it means it's a stimulant along the lines of 'speed'. Methedrine, dexadrine, etc. This would include most allergy medicines, unfortunately for those of us with hayfever.
Matt
I'm not sure about Dr. Pepper, but many dark sodas have nutmeg in them, and nutmeg will knock me down in a matter of minutes. I don't have a problem with caffeine, (and hope I never do, coffee is my drug of choice) but I have heard it can be a problem for some other people. It's probably a good idea to avoid anything with the suffix "-ine-" as it means it's a stimulant along the lines of 'speed'. Methedrine, dexadrine, etc. This would include most allergy medicines, unfortunately for those of us with hayfever.
Matt
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by daniesbrwneyes on Fri, 2009-04-17 - 23:35
Green tea triggered mine an starting to find out to much coffee does mine also starting to wonder what else. Or if it is type of meds I am taking because it only through out certian parts of life it seem it happen to trigger.