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The analysis of ‘funny turns’ or ‘blackouts’ of one sort or another makes up a considerable proportion of the work of a neurologist and quite a bit of the work of a paediatrician. Their first concern is to obtain as accurate as possible an account of the events which led up to and occurred at the time of a seizure. People who have lost consciousness cannot themselves say what happened while they were unconscious. However, people will be able to give important information about what they were doing and how they felt before loss of consciousness, and how they felt when they first recovered, but the neurologist will want to know what was happening during the time that consciousness was disturbed. For this reason an eye-witness account is essential. Information must be asked about:

• What time of day was it?

• What was the person doing before the attack?

• What were the events leading up to the seizure(s)?

• Did the seizure or attack occur without warning, or were there initial symptoms suggestive of an aura or of a simple faint (syncope)?

• What precisely did the child or person look like or do during the seizure?

• How long did the seizure or attack last?

• What did the person look like and do afterwards?

If the patient or eye-witness is unable to recall accurately exactly what happened during the seizure, then it is useful to ask the eye-witness to show the doctor what sort of ‘jerking’ or shaking occurred, but sometimes people are too shy or embarrassed to do this. If repeated attacks occur, and there remains diagnostic difficulty, the potential eye-witness should be given a list of these check points, and encouraged to use a video-camera or cam-corder to record the seizure or attack. This is becoming increasingly useful in the diagnosis of epilepsy, particularly in infants and young children.

It should be possible to make a definite diagnosis of epilepsy or of some other condition on the basis of all this clinical information.

The diagnosis of epilepsy must not be made lightly and if there is doubt then epilepsy should not be diagnosed and the doctor should wait for more convincing evidence from further ‘attacks’ or episodes before making a firm diagnosis. The risk of someone with epilepsy coming to harm from a delay in the diagnosis is small, whereas a diagnosis of epilepsy incorrectly made is nearly always damaging. This damage may be reflected in unfair prejudice and resulting social burden, in addition to the prescription of unnecessary and potentially hazardous medication.

A large number of conditions may be misdiagnosed as epilepsy particularly in children.

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Newspapers, books, television news, radio talk shows, and medical newsletters all report that CMO is nothing less than a revolutionary breakthrough.

The Mark Scott Show, WXYT Radio in Detroit, provides us with these quotes: “Hang on folks, because if you haven’t heard this before, it certainly is going to be an eye-opener for you … Amazing is not the word for it… CMO gets to the source of the problem. It actually stops the arthritic process.”

The Don Bodenbach Show, KCEO Radio in San Diego gives us these quotes: “It may be what we consider almost a miracle cure for arthritis, and the form of arthritis doesn’t matter … What is more impressive is once you undergo the appropriate treatment… you are in most cases free from arthritis symptoms forever.”

The Nature of Health magazine, September 1996 titled its article, “Stop Arthritis Now! The Amazing Story of CMO” It said, “CMO is a natural substance and is considered an immunomodulator. The reason for the enormous interest is the effect of CMO on both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis … The results of CMO are so impressive that nothing that mainstream or natural medicine has to offer can come close to the dramatic reversals in arthritis that have been observed … The link between CMO and arthritis was discovered at the National Institutes of Health … Standard medical treatment is aimed at symptomatic relief of pain and inflammation and has shown to actually accelerate the disease process … In contrast, the CMO protocol works rapidly and does not need to be continued in the vast majority of cases.”

The Senior Citizens Reporter recounts: “CMO is not a conventional product. It’s unlike anything that’s existed before for arthritis … it’s an immunomodulator, which does not treat the symptoms, but instead corrects the cause of arthritis. CMO acts to normalize or correct the immune function that has gone awry, and that literally halts the arthritic process. Once the destructive process stops the body can heal itself, eliminating inflammation, stiffness, and pain.”

The Military Press reports: “T-cells incite macrophages to attack the body’s own cartilage … macrophages [are] like garbage collectors inside your body. Their job is to get rid of any foreign matter and organisms they encounter … and they clean up waste matter as well. That includes any fragments of unhealthy cartilage damaged by some physical trauma or produced by some invading organism like that which causes rheumatic fever … In the case of arthritis, regardless of whether it’s rheumatoid or osteo, once macrophages have dealt with some particles of cartilage they develop a chemical message that’s passed on to the memory T-cells … [which] develop a program instructing more and more macrophages to dispose of more and more cartilage. Unfortunately, that program doesn’t distinguish between healthy and unhealthy cartilage. So the onslaught against your joints begins … CMO acts to normalize the programs in the memory

T-cells that are directing the macrophage attacks against the cartilage and the joints. Thus it intervenes in the arthritic process itself regardless of whether it is osteo or rheumatoid. Once the arthritic process is halted and the macrophage attacks are stopped, the body’s own healing mechanisms can deal with the inflammation, and its resulting pains soon disappear as well. The effects seem to be permanent.”

The West Coast Jewish News reports: “CMO successfully intervenes in both the osteo and rheumatoid arthritic process. The proof that CMO is acting as a modulator is demonstrated by the fact that subjects with hypertension [high blood pressure] and others with hypotension [low blood pressure] have both seen their blood pressures normalize as a result of taking CMO. This normalization effect also frequently affects blood sedimentation rates [of lupus patients] as well as insulin requirements in diabetics.”

The media in Europe are gradually also waking up to CMO.

In April 2000, Womans Own, a British magazine devoted a whole page to the story of eleven year old girl under the title 7 thought only older people got arthritis”. The magazine reports on the wonderful and long lasting improvement this young girl got after CMO therapy.

In Norway, Scandinavia, the top selling and highly respected magazine, Hjemmet, reported on its front cover, the sensational headline: “New natural find removes arthritis”. What followed was a two page spread inside the magazine reporting on CMO, and how a Norwegian school teacher who had to stop teaching as he could not lift his hand because of his arthritis. After CMO therapy, his improvement was such that he could go back to teaching and fishing!

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Symptoms: eyes are not parallel; the pupil of one eye is a different color from the other; child has trouble judging distance; child cocks head or moves face in effort to see clearly.

Home care

Home care cannot be undertaken until a doctor has diagnosed the condition.

Precautions

-    A child under seven whose eyes are not parallel all or most of the time should be seen by -    If lazy eye is not diagnosed and treated, the condition can become permanent.

-    Have your child’s eyes checked every year after the age of three or four.

A “lazy eye” is one in which the vision is poor because the child has suppressed the image received by that eye. Basically it’s loss of vision from lack of use and is known technically as amblyopia ex anopsia. Most cases of lazy eye result from weakness of one or more of the six small muscles that move the eyeball. Eye muscle weaknesses can cause the eyes to turn in or out in relation to each other. This can lead to the child’s seeing double. If a young child learns to ignore one of the double images, a loss of vision in the unused eye results. On the other hand, if the eye muscles are normal but the vision is poor in one eye, the young child may ignore the poor image received. This can result from marked near- or farsightedness, astigmatism, or other interference with vision in one eye. Such interference might be caused by congenital cataracts (clouding of the lens of the eye) or scars on the cornea (the transparent front part of the eye).

Signs and symptoms

Lazy eye should be suspected when the eyes are not parallel all or most of the time, or are parallel less and less often in a child under seven years of age. See your doctor if: your child’s eyes aren’t parallel; the pupil of one eye is a different color from the other; your child is over two years old and has trouble seeing or judging distances when reaching for an object; or your child cocks his or her head to one side or turns his or her face to see better (the child may be compensating for double vision).

Home care

No home treatment for lazy eye is advised until a doctor has diagnosed the condition.

Precautions

• You should understand lazy eye so that if the condition occurs in your child you can catch it in time for treatment to be successful.

• Have your child’s vision checked each year after age three or four. Lazy eye can be treated successfully in children up to age seven. If it’s left untreated the condition may become permanent.

Medical treatment

Your doctor will inspect the insides and outsides of both eyes and test their movements in all directions. If the child is old enough to understand directions, the doctor can check the vision. Vision will be checked with a letter or picture chart. A younger child’s vision should be checked by an ophthalmologist who can use a system that does not require the child to follow instructions.

Lazy eye is corrected either by patching the good eye or hindering the vision in the good eye with eye drops or glasses. By blocking the good eye, the child is forced to use the lazy eye. As a final resort, surgery is sometimes necessary to correct the weak eye muscles.

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