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LA Smog Caused My Son's Coma...are any doctors saying anything to the other kids????

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From: Matthew J Vona
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 00:00
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One morning, my four-year-old son,  who was living with our family in
a smoggy area of Southern California (Orange County), was rushed in a
comatose condition to the hospital.  The immediate question asked of
me was, "Did he get into any poisons?"   The answer was, "No."  He had
no adverse effects after being comatose for about three hours.  It was
at this time that I noticed that the hospital was overcrowded with
pediatric seizure patients with symptoms similar to my son's.  I spoke
to a few of the other mothers, and the conditions surrounding the
onset of the seizures seemed to be similar.

Although the final medical diagnosis for my son was that of a cerebral
hemorrhage, my son's pediatrician suspected something different and
recommended that he be seen by a pediatric neurologist.  It was then
determined that my son had an abnormal EEG and was diagnosed as
"seizure prone" (he was "so sensitive to something he was eating or to
something in his environment that he experienced a seizure").  My son
was immediately placed on medication (Mebral), and I was told that he
would most likely continue on that medication until his teens.   

Two years later, we moved to Riverside County--an area in Southern
California even more smog-laden than the county from which we had
moved.   My son's health problems increased--heart racing, abnormal
sweating, breathing difficulties, sleepwalking, frequent urination,
weight loss, etc.  When an attempt was made to take my son off of
seizure medication, he experienced yet another seizure.   

Two years after our move to Riverside County, I also began to
experience health problems very similar to my son's with one
exception--I experienced an electrical discharge in my right eye, not
in my head (a seizure).  The inside of my right eye was burned...not
unlike that which occurs when an individual looks at an eclipse.  My
health continued to fail until I saw an allergist in the Sacramento
area.  He immediately diagnosed my health problems as signs of
poisoning (specifically, a sensitivity to pollutants) and stated that
I would have to move to a cleaner environment.

Upon our family's move to a cleaner area of California, a positive
change was seen in my son's health as well as in mine.  My son was
seen by a pediatric neurologist in San Francisco who performed an EEG.
My son was found to have a normal EEG and was taken off  seizure
medication with no adverse effects. Also, upon further investigation,
I found that the day prior to my son�s first seizure, there had been a
smog alert in the area in which he�d been playing for the whole day.  

Two recently publicized pediatric seizure cases are as follows:
First, a young boy living in the Southern California area whose
seizures were finally controlled by a long-hidden, high fat "seizure
diet"; second, a young boy whose seizures were finally controlled by
removal of one side of his brain, resulting in his having to reacquire
speech abilities, etc.

Questions:   Are pediatricians seeing the increased seizure problems
of our youth and attempting to make any correlation between pollution
levels and seizure demographics?  Do they suspect pollution as a
plausible cause?  Is change of residence a possible alternative to be
considered in the management of these patients?


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