Six-year-old Jayden David violently shakes on the ground, his blue
eyes vacant and then filled with searing pain. The video shows an
unvarnished look at a seizure, something Jayden once experienced
routinely.Before he started taking a liquid, non psychoactive form of marijuana, Jayden couldn't walk, eat solid food or take a bath.
He has Dravet's syndrome, a rare and catastrophic form of childhood epilepsy. It has triggered seizures so frequent that 44 times he has been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, his distraught father by his side.
Jayden's doctors prescribed 22 anti-seizure pills a day, which controlled the seizures but left him immobilized due to the side effects.
"He's in pain and suffering and crying," said Jayden's father, Jason David. "You can't help him no matter what. What are you supposed to do? You have to do whatever it takes to save their life."
http://cannabisculture.com/content/2012/12/10/Medical-Marijuana-Helps-Stem-6-Year-Olds-Seizures
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