file.newsgroup.med.59095 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: food-related seizures?
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (david ozonoff) writes:
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>Many of these cereals are corn-based. After your post I looked in the
>literature and located two articles that implicated corn (contains
>tryptophan) and seizures. The idea is that corn in the diet might
>potentiate an already existing or latent seizure disorder, not cause it.
>Check to see if the two Kellog cereals are corn based. I'd be interested.
Years ago when I was an intern, an obese young woman was brought into
the ER comatose after having been reported to have grand mal seizures
why attending a "corn festival". We pumped her stomach and obtained
what seemed like a couple of liters of corn, much of it intact kernals.
After a few hours she woke up and was fine. I was tempted to sign her out as
"acute corn intoxication."
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