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Food-Triggered Siezures
Sun, 05/18/2008 - 14:10Comments
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by John S. on Sun, 2010-08-29 - 12:26
Hi,
I'm a 62 year old man & I have had noctunal seizures all my life(approx. 1 per week) I do take AED medication but last year I learned to eliminate the seizure occurances by primarily changing my diet. I have eliminated the following foods: MSG, NON-ANGUS BEEF, CHEESE, SWEETENERS, SHELLFISH, ALCHOHOL. When I do not eat these things I do not have any seizures. Again, I still take my anti-seizure medication. I know this works for me because occassionally I will have something with MSG in it by mistake & that night I will have a nocturnal seizure. Sometimes I wonder if I just have had a food allergy to these things all my life!
Good Luck All!
Hi,
I'm a 62 year old man & I have had noctunal seizures all my life(approx. 1 per week) I do take AED medication but last year I learned to eliminate the seizure occurances by primarily changing my diet. I have eliminated the following foods: MSG, NON-ANGUS BEEF, CHEESE, SWEETENERS, SHELLFISH, ALCHOHOL. When I do not eat these things I do not have any seizures. Again, I still take my anti-seizure medication. I know this works for me because occassionally I will have something with MSG in it by mistake & that night I will have a nocturnal seizure. Sometimes I wonder if I just have had a food allergy to these things all my life!
Good Luck All!
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by sttropez on Sat, 2011-02-19 - 05:36
I would 100% agree with that. My daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy at 18 months, she started taking small myoclonic jerks her consultant put her on epilim and straight away her jerks turned into big obvious jerks about evey half hour, the consultant told me this was a coincidence she then put her on esothuxomide and within 2 days she was hyperactive to the point of being uncontrolable, sometimes being awake for 24hrs. I then thought about looking into the possible side effects of food additives, as I linked the start of her siezures to around the time her diet started to change, (with her going to nursery ect I had less control over what she ate) I also made the desition to stop the esothuxomide. Within a week of her being on the guard diet she has very little hyperactivity and has aloso not had a single fit since the 29th of jan. I dont care what the consultant says no-one is going to tell me thats a coincidence, she also saw a cranial oesteopath and I think that has helped to.
I think the guard diet is healthy for all children, our food is too full of junk these days it scares me! its a challenge but I think going back to cooking fresh pure foods from scratch is what is needed, not pumping our children full of junk.
I would 100% agree with that. My daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy at 18 months, she started taking small myoclonic jerks her consultant put her on epilim and straight away her jerks turned into big obvious jerks about evey half hour, the consultant told me this was a coincidence she then put her on esothuxomide and within 2 days she was hyperactive to the point of being uncontrolable, sometimes being awake for 24hrs. I then thought about looking into the possible side effects of food additives, as I linked the start of her siezures to around the time her diet started to change, (with her going to nursery ect I had less control over what she ate) I also made the desition to stop the esothuxomide. Within a week of her being on the guard diet she has very little hyperactivity and has aloso not had a single fit since the 29th of jan. I dont care what the consultant says no-one is going to tell me thats a coincidence, she also saw a cranial oesteopath and I think that has helped to.
I think the guard diet is healthy for all children, our food is too full of junk these days it scares me! its a challenge but I think going back to cooking fresh pure foods from scratch is what is needed, not pumping our children full of junk.
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by loloss on Thu, 2010-07-08 - 13:57
is a good post ,i want to add that SUGAR IS A TRIGGER FOR ME. I DON'T EAT MUCH SUGAR, IT MAKES ME FEEL AWFUL, BUT WHEN I AM SICK, POSSIBLY MS, BUT DONT KNOW YET, IT DEFINITELY TRIGGERS SEIZURES. I NEVER DRINK ANY ALCOHOL. ONE SIP OF BEER AND I AM SPINNING. AND NEVER, EVER HAVE CAFFIENE! email harvester