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News items on 'Childhood Epilepsy'
Chicago hope
(BBC 10/06/2009)
Billy Caldwell was sent home from the hospital after being told nothing else could be done for his severe epilepsy, but his mother took him for treatment to Chicago - he is now aged nearly four and is learning to walk and talk. Other families have been following in their footsteps and have had to raise thousands of pounds to fund treatment in the United States - some have had to leave other children behind to make the trips.
(BBC 25/02/2009)
David Cameron's son Ivan has died of a condition which some doctors refer to as Ohtahara syndrome, a very rare form of epilepsy which also exhibits symptoms akin to those of cerebral palsy. Ohtahara syndrome is either inherited or may develop around the time of birth, possibly as a result of brain damage. It is characterised by seizures which start in the first days of life.
Girl, 5, now able to 'shine' after epilepsy surgery removes half her brain
(Daily Mail 21/11/2008)
For the first three years of life, Brooklyn suffered frequent seizures and her speech and movement were severely delayed. And the many attempts at treatment left her lethargic. So the medical team tried to treat her epilepsy with a functional hemispherectomy, an operation that removed a large part of her brain and cut the neurons that connected it to the right side, which was healthy.
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