re food related seizures in article bu edu dozonoff bu edu david ozonoff writes path news larc nasa gov darwin sura net zaphod mps ohio state edu uwm edu linac att bu edu dozonoff from dozonoff bu edu david ozonoff newsgroups sci med date apr gmt references paulson apr cmb larc nasa gov sender news bu edu lines x newsreader tin pl sharon paulson paulson tab larc nasa gov wrote much deleted the fact that this happened while eating two sugar coated cereals made by kellog s makes me think she might be having an allergic reaction to something in the coating or the cereals of the four of us in our immediate family kathryn shows the least signs of the hay fever running nose itchy eyes etc but we have a lot of allergies in our family history including some weird food allergies nuts mushrooms 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 david ozonoff md mph boston university school of public health dozonoff med itvax bu edu east concord st t c boston ma a couple of folks have suggested the corn connection in the five month period between the two seizures my daughter had eaten a fair amount of kix and berry berry kix in the mornings and never had a problem i checked the labels and the first ingredient is corn she has also never had a problem eating corn or corn on the cob but of course that is usually later in the day with a full stomach so the absorption would not be so high i do believe that frost flakes have corn in them but i will have to check the fruit loops but the fact that she has eaten this other corny cereal in the morning makes me wonder thanks for checking into this all information at this point is valuable to me sharon sharon paulson s s paulson larc nasa gov nasa langley research center bldg d mailstop work hampton virginia home
