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Anybody know of a child who had epilepsy and type a diebetes? I desperately need help for my 10 year old?

I was 10 years old old and was diagnosed with type one diabetes at age 4 at the 10th B-Day, had a severe attack and later this week diagnosed epilepsy.do know someone who has dealt with this problem? I was told that she would be happy to live to 20. plz help me if you can or know someone who can .. She is extremely intellegent and loves science and mathematics and wants to be a vet or dr growing .. Do not let this great mind to escape from this world b4 you can even get an education. She is a bundle of energy who loves life and does not want to die and she is afraid of his mind that I am a single mother.

Actually, now there is a striking relationship between some cases of epilepsy and Type 1 diabetes, including cases that do not respond to typical treatments. Research has linked the two diseases, celiac disease, which is also a Autoimmune disease more common in type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease are believed to be caused by the small "leakage" hypothesis. Approximately 3-10% of type 1 diabetes also have celiac disease and response to gluten. Some studies have estimated at 30%, although most are asymptomatic. Gluten can cause seizures in some people. Some celiac disease show no signs of gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms. The scientists are now finding a link between celiac disease / gluten and some cases of epilepsy. If you like your daughter tested for celiac disease. It is necessary to detect anti-gliadin antibodies TTG and EMA. Blood tests are more accurate. This can save your life, and no medicine. Treatment is a gluten-free diet for life. Check out PubMed.com for more details seraching for gluten / celiac and epilepsy. In any case, try to take one day at a time. There is hope. Epilepsy and the disease Celiac favorable results with a gluten-free diet in the One patient refractory to antiepileptic Drugs.Canales P, Mery VP, Larrondo FJ, Bravo, FL, Godoy J. * Department of Neurology, Hospital Regional de Talca, Talca, Chile, and Neurology and daggerDepartment double daggerDepartment of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. BACKGROUND: There is a well documented relationship between epilepsy and celiac disease, a syndrome characterized by epilepsy, occipital calcifications and celiac disease. REVIEW SUMMARY: We report the case of a 23-year-old woman with a 11-year history of refractory crisis and newly diagnosed biopsy proven celiac disease with increased endomysial immunoglobulin antibodies. The patient showed dramatic improvement after starting a gluten free diet. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the need for celiac disease in the differential diagnosis in research on the etiology of epilepsy in refractory patients. PMID: 17122729 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

A Magic Ride in Foozbah-Land; an Inside Look at Diabetes DVD $16.95 Julie and Jeff take a magic ride through the human body to learn about diabetes. This animated DVD is a rhyming lesson for children ages 3-8 that helps make understanding diabetes both easy and fun....

It's Time to Learn about Diabetes $12.95 With the help of hosts Mike and Cindy, this DVD helps children understand diabetes and how they can help manage it. This 20 minute video, based on the workbook of the same name, addresses a child's concerns in an entertaining and positive way....

Keisha and Friends - So Leroy Has Diabetes - Health Education for Kids $29.99 This digitally animated series provides knowledge that can help young people and their families learn more about diabetes and assist them in making lifestyle choices that will lead to optimal lifelong health. The enclosed guidebook includes questions and answers to help you start a conversation about diabetes with young people, and lists resources you will find useful later....

Iit's Time to Learn about Diabetes CD-Rom $24.95 This Interactive CD-ROM on diabetes for children provides basic information about diabetes and diabetes management in an interesting, playful way. There are 12 subject areas, each with a video clip and interactive exercise. Activities include word games, word puzzles, "ketone invaders," crossword puzzles and "make-a-face" to help to express feelings about diabetes...

Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans $55.68 Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans, 2nd edition, provides detailed information on caring for clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, the postpartum period, and the newborn/infant period. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for clients in the maternal and newborn periods is included. Each care plan presents information to guide users in dev...

It's Time to Learn About Diabetes: A Workbook on Diabetes for Children, Revised Edition $9.99 The most widely used resource for helping children manage their diabetes is now totally revised and updated. When kids find out they have diabetes, they often have questions about what it is and how they got it. It's Time to Learn About Diabetes is an entertaining and easy-to-use guide that and explains diabetes in simple terms, showing school-age kids how to help take care of themselves. With fri...

Taking Diabetes to School (Special Kids in Schools Series) $12.94 This color illustrated book for elementary age children contains an instructive story of a grade-schooler with diabetes who tells his classmates about the disease and how he manages it. The story offers sensitive insight into the day-to-day school life of a child with a chronic illness. Includes Ten Tips for Teachers and; Kids Quiz--This text refers to the Paperback edition....