Medicine based on cannabis will treat children with epilepsy
Clinical trials have confirmed the effectiveness of the drug on the basis of beznarkoticheskih cannabinoids. Visible improvement of the young patients immediately evident in 42% of children taking the drug hemp. In particular, children suffering from Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is significantly reduced the number of seizures and their severity, and duration reduced significantly.
Doctors Children's Hospital of London's Great Ormond Street (Great Ormond Street) conducted a study of a new medicinal product derived from industrial hemp. During the clinical trials, kids with severe epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a preparation «Epidiolex».
Preliminary results of the tests are encouraging British doctors. Visible improvement of the young patients immediately evident in 42% of children taking the drug hemp. In particular, children suffering from Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is significantly reduced the number of seizures and their severity, and duration reduced significantly. According to scientists and health care workers, in the case if the drug itself perfectly demonstrated in the treatment of severe forms of epilepsy as the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, it should help other kids suffering not as severe forms of epilepsy.
Clinical trials «Epidiolex» of the new drug among Dravet syndrome victims also demonstrate the ability to treat this disease a new medication. At least one-third of young patients who suffer from a variety of epileptic disorders, will now take «Epidiolex» not only to reduce the number of attacks and their severity, as well as the flow rate, but also can look forward to a gradual treatment, which resulted in the seizures will no longer torment body.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome - a rare and severe form of epilepsy that begins in childhood. Children with this disease attacks occur more frequently, and are marked with different symptoms and different types of seizures. Attacks with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome usually begins at the age of 2 - 6 years, and happens every day to 80 episodes. Dravet syndrome - severe epilepsy of infancy.
Currently, a third of children of patients with severe forms of epilepsy are not susceptible to various types of modern medicines that are used to control the flow of attacks. Some patients due to the severity of the attacks and their intensity because it is impossible to leave the house.
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