re food related seizures 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
