file.newsgroup.med.59187 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: food-related seizures?
In article [email protected] (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (david ozonoff) writes:
>>
>>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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>Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
How about contaminants on the corn, e.g. aflatoxin???
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