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Might Calcium Disorders Cause Seizures?
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 20:53Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
I was looking up some stuff online and inadvertently came across this. I didn't read the article thoroughly but I found my fast skimming interesting.
~Karen
Re: Might Calcium Disorders Cause Seizures?
Submitted by 1oliver3 on Mon, 2009-11-09 - 18:49
Hi, just wanted to add something interesting......my Son has recently been recently dx with absence and / or partials ?? (depending on the Doctor) anyway, 2 years ago we took him off Cows milk - due to suspected intolerance. I thought it would be a good idea to give him calcium supplements, and probably stupidly in hindsight, gave him an adult dose for approx 2 weeks. During those two weeks he had about 4-5 episodes of going into "dreams" during the day - he would stop what he was doing, stand up and stare with his eyes wide open during these episodes, and he was unresponsive to being called by name. He recalled having these "dreams" where he said it was like being 'teleported' to scenes either that he had read in a book or seen on a movie etc. We now know (after lots of assesments and finally an EEG) that these were seizures. I made the suspicious connection to the calcium back then, and funnily enough I removed them immediately to find that it NEVER happened to him again since then. No one I have told about this bizarre coincidence (either gp, paed or neuro) would entertain the possibility that it could be linked. It's interesting though that the link makes the connection between needing more calcium, whereas we found that it was having more that was the trigger !! Michele