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THE FACTS-THE FIRST SEIZURE AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY: OTHER CAUSES OF IMPAIRED OXYGEN SUPPLY TO THE BRAIN-VERTIGO
April 28, 2009
Doctors are careful to distinguish true vertigo—a perception of dysequilibrium of the body in its relation to space—from non-specific feelings in the head such as ‘dizziness, or ‘muzziness’ which are so often associated with anxiety and depression. True vertigo is rarely a symptom of a partial seizure in a temporal lobe. Far more common is vertigo due to a disorder of the balancing organ—the labyrinth—lying within the inner ear. The labyrinth may malfunction in an episodic way in both children and adults. In young children the distinction between paroxysmal vertigo and partial seizures may not be easy, as in both the child is frightened, and may either hold on to his mother or fall. The distinction rests on the absence of amnesia or confusion after the attack of benign paroxysmal vertigo, and the presence of abnormal tests of labyrinthine function.
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SEVERE TO CRIPPLING OSTEOARTHRITIS
In Group #4, fourteen subjects presenting with severe to crippling osteoarthritis were supplied with 50 capsules to be taken in two series, two capsules each morning and evening for seven days, with a seven day interval before repeating the same dosage for 5 1/2 2 more days. Three of these subjects were unable to walk and were accustomed to being transported by wheelchairs. The other eleven could move about with crutches, walkers, or canes. All presented with pain, inflammation, and marked deformation of nearly all interphalangeal and large joints. Four presented with limited lumbar flexion and pain in the vertebral column. Ten had difficulty grasping and manipulating common objects.
After four days of treatment ten in this group reported 30% to 50% improvement in articulation and inflammation and about 40% to 60% relief of arthritic pain. In these ten subjects improvement continued rapidly over the next three days, reaching 80% to 100% by the end of seven days. One reported no perceptible change.
On the fourteenth day, at the end of the one week interval without treatment, nine subjects reported continuing minor improvement, four reported maintaining their improved status, and one continued to show no improvement. Treatment was resumed on the fifteenth day for 5 1/2 more days.
By the end of the treatment period eleven subjects reported 80% to 100% relief of pain with a return of 80% to 100% mobility. Two subjects reported 70% to 80% return of articular mobility with a 70% to 90% reduction of arthritic pain. The one non-responsive subject proved to have previous liver damage as a result of sports-related steroid abuse. Further studies are necessary to determine the role of liver function in this protocol.
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CHILDREN’S MENINGITIS: PRECAUTIONS AND TREATMENT
Precautions
• The unnecessary use of antibiotics for an upper respiratory tract infection may mask the onset of meningitis.
• A child who is suffering from exhaustion or extreme weakness, and who has fever and a stiff neck is in danger and should be taken to a medical facility immediately.
Your doctor will take the child’s complete medical history and perform a thorough examination. The doctor will then order a spinal tap. Spinal fluid will be examined for cells, bacteria, and abnormal chemical components. This is the only way to differentiate between meningitis and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), which is also a life-threatening disease. The doctor will also require cultures of the spinal fluid, blood, and nose and throat mucus. Immediately following the spinal tap and cultures your doctor will administer intravenous fluids and antibiotics. If the infecting organism is unknown, the doctor may put the child on two antibiotics at the same time. If the meningitis turns out to be caused by a virus, no antibiotics will be used, since viruses do not respond to antibiotics.
If your child has been in contact with a person with meningococcal or Haemophilus influenzae meningitis, your doctor may choose to administer penicillin, sulphonamide, or rifampin by mouth prevent your child from developing meningitis.
Vaccines against meningococci, pneumococci, and Haemophilius influenzae are available, but they are still in the experimental stage and not currently recommended for general use.
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