re food related seizures in article paulson apr cmb larc nasa gov paulson tab larc nasa gov sharon paulson writes i am posting to this group in hopes of finding someone out there in network newsland who has heard of something similar to what i am going to describe here i have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced a seizure on november at am after eating kellog s frosted flakes she is perfectly healthy had never experienced anything like this before and there is no history of seizures in either side of the family all the tests eeg mri ekg came out negative so the decision was made to do nothing and just wait to see if it happened again well we were going along fine and the other morning april she had a bowl of another kellog s frosted kind of cereal fruit loops i am embarrassed to admit that i even bought that junk but every once in a while so i pour it in her bowl and think oh oh this is the same kind of junk she was eating when she had that seizure ten minutes later she had a full blown seizures this was her first exposure to a sugar coated cereal since the last seizure my daughter has epilepsy and i attend a monthly parent support group just wednesday night a mother was telling how she decided to throw all the junk food out and see if it made a difference in her year old s seizures he was having about one seizure per week she reported that she did this on thursday he had a seizure on saturday and then went weeks without a seizure on easter he went to grandma s and ate candy pop anything he wanted he had a seizure the next day she sees sensitivity to nutrasweet sugar colors caffine and corn with corn she says he gets very nervous and aggresive with my own daughter age i think she is also sensitive and stays away from those foods on her own she has never had gum won t eat candy prefers an apple to a cookie doesn t like chocolate and won t even use toothpaste her brother on the other hand is a junk food addict hope this helps good luck
