From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: food-related seizures?
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In article <C5uq9B.LrJ@toads.pgh.pa.us> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <116305@bu.edu> dozonoff@bu.edu (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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