Cannabis Oil: A Boon for Parents with Kids Suffering from Epilepsy
Ella, a 6-year old girl from Surrey, has been suffering from autism and severe epilepsy. Though she’s six years old, she still has the cognitive abilities of only a toddler. If not for the 2 shots per day of cannabis oil that she takes in addition to her anti-seizure pills, she could have slept all day and spent even the precious hours she was aware in a depressed condition due to her medication for treating seizures. Thankfully, today she is a more cheerful child due to the benefits of the cannabis oil that she consumes.
Ella’s parents are not the only ones desperate to see some relief – there are many more such parents unsatisfied with the other failed medications and turn to marijuana oil – ideally something that has low levels of the psychoactive agent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and high levels of cannabidiol (CBD), the compound that’s believed to stop seizures.
The positive outcomes that parents are seeing in their kids after the use of CBD-rich cannabis oil are giving many of the other parents with epilepsy kids what they’ve been lacking all through – a ray of positive hope! Though marijuana is not a miracle drug, it can significantly enhance the quality of life for kids suffering from epilepsy.
Evidence from small clinical researches, lab studies, and anecdotal reports from several years back indicate that CBD, the non-psychoactive compound of marijuana, could possibly be helpful to control seizures. Further, adding to these reports, individual reports of kids with intractable (or refractory) epilepsy who have tried marijuana oil, generally with high cannabidiol to THC ratios, have proved significant improvements in the frequency of seizures. It’s a great relief for kids plagued with seizures even though it comes in the most unusual form.
Apart from reducing the frequency of seizures, the high-CBD cannabis oil extract is also known to come with many other benefits like increased alertness, better mood, and better sleep in children with epilepsy.
Parents of kids with severe epilepsy are changing treatments and turning to medicinal cannabis oil in an anxious attempt to find some relief and a life – for their children. Cannabis oil holds a great promise for decreasing seizures in severely epileptics kids who fail to respond to other kinds of treatment.
It’s high time that the benefits of cannabis oil in treating epilepsy gets universally realized and legalized for medicinal use.
