How Medicine Derived from Marijuana Cured Schoolgirl of Life threatening Seizures
12-year-old Annalise Lujan, who suffered from a rare condition causing debilitating and dangerous seizures has been cured after she took a cannabis-derived drug, called Cannabidiol.
Cannabidiol is a drug derived from cannabis, physicians say.
Last April, according to The Sun, the little girl had suffered a deadly seizure during a gymnastics class, as she started vomiting and lost all feeling in her legs.
As she fell into the crippling seizure, her parents rushed her to the hospital, where paramedics put her in a medically-induced coma to stop any further damage being caused to her brain.
The youngster was then flown to a specialist unit at Phoenix Children’s Hospital where she was diagnosed with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), an incredibly rare condition affecting just one in a million children.
The condition causes Annalise to have seizures continuously, which can lead to brain injury and even death. It meant doctors couldn’t bring her out of the coma until they had an effective method to prevent her seizures.
Doctors were not able to bring her out of her induced coma until they found a method of controlling the seizures.
Her devastated mother, Maryann Estrada-Lujan, told KVOA:
”One day, she was just a healthy young lady, going to school, participating in her community and her gymnastics, and the next day – fighting for her life.
She was put on a ventilator, and put into a medical coma, and, we haven’t talked to her since. We had no idea that our whole world would be 180-degrees turned around in such devastation, such heartache, such confusion.”
She then began researching alternative remedies and discovered a cannabis -derived drug, Cannabidiol, which had been successful in previous epilepsy cases.
She lobbied for the drug, which has low levels of THC which is the active ingredient making people ‘high’, to be given to her daughter.
Doctors had to rush through its approval with the FDA and DEA as the drug was not yet approved.
After just three treatments, the lucky girl was able to be brought out of her coma, and no longer suffers from the crippling seizures.
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Wow. Thank God for her life.
Marijuana is highly medicinal.
nice