Posted on 01/19/2014 2:56:27 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
With their teenage son in a coma, a California family was willing to try anything to bring him back. And with a new type of treatment, their son has made a miraculous recovery — thanks to fish oil. Grant Virgin, now 17, of Palm Desert, Calif., was involved in a near-tragic car accident last September when an unidentified woman crashed into him and drove off — even after stopping to survey the damage, the Desert Sun reported. Virgin was in a coma and was in really bad shape.
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Just damn! He lived... /s
Gotta feel sorry for the hospital staff who have no hope within them.
Good for the family. They tried everything they could. They did exactly right.
When all else fails...
Try something else.
'unorthodox therapy at a dosage of 20-grams-per-day.'
Wiki:
The FDA says it is safe to take up to 3000 mg of omega-3 per day.[71] (This is not the same as 3000 mg of fish oil. A 1000 mg pill typically has only 300 mg of omega-3; 10 such pills would equal 3000 mg of omega-3.) Dyerberg studied healthy Greenland Eskimos and found an average intake of 5700 mg of omega-3 EPA per day.[72]
It gets trickier. Omega-3 has two primary components, called EPA and DHA (not to be confused with DHEA).
DHA is the component associated with its anti-inflammatory action. EPA is actually slightly inflammatory.
Ideally, it has been suggested that most people get too much Omega-6, which is balanced with Omega-3. There is also Omega-9, but it can be created by the body from unsaturated fats.
Another twist is a recent therapy has been developed for children suffering from severe, non-responsive juvenile epilepsy. The therapy is an extremely high-fat diet, with some protein but very little carbohydrate. In some of these children, by diet alone, they have gone from hundreds of seizures a day to just two or three.
Keep this handy for future encounters with the “PULL THE PLUG” gang.
God is Great!
Hemp oil? It seems to help.
Bet he got a lot of kidding in school.
No idea, but it is a very risky therapy, and the kids need intensive monitoring to prevent liver and kidney damage.
Here in S.E Michigan, there's a pain clinic which deals with hypotheripic therapy which involves putting a patient in a pressurized climate that is supposed to infuse the blood stream with oxygen. Their newest claim is that it cures autism in children.........
Why?
This young man was only in a coma. He wasn't in a persistent vegetative state, and he certainly wasn't brain dead.
I've never seen anyone on FR suggest that it's appropriate to pull the plug on a patient who is only in a coma.
I bet his nickname is olive oil, as in A EVOO
Seems to me that it’s the omega 3 that’s great.
“...I’ve never seen anyone on FR suggest that it’s appropriate to pull the plug on a patient who is only in a coma.”
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Quite right Scoutmaster, neither have I. Some folks confuse brain death with comas—the first one consists of a dead brain (with no “resurrection” possible) and the 2nd one covers a wide spectrum of brain conditions with the possibility (likelihood with some types of coma) of partial to near full recovery.
Bet he got a lot of kidding in school.
I’ve been doing a lot of study on so-called ‘’brain death’’. The consensus is that there is NO true diagnosis of ‘’brain death’’. It’s an invented term used to keep bodies alive for transplant purposes. The term didn’t exist before the 1970’s.
Coma is frequently called brain death. And persistant vegetative state means that the brain is alive even if it’s not functioning at it’s best for the moment.
When it comes to central nervous system injury, EVERYTHING should be considered for treatments. If you can keep a good flow of oxygen to the brain, you reduce swelling and reduce brain cell death thereby allowing dormant areas of the brain to pick up the functions from the areas that are injured. Other things can assist in swelling reduction too, which is what this fish oil/omega 3 fatty acid treatment seeks to look at.
Swelling is the worst thing. Even uninjured areas can and do become injured if the swelling is bad enough.
I think there are a LOT of things that can be done/tried and I am of the opinion that things should be tried. It takes courage because the patient could die anyway. In which case, then ok...but to let a person die without trying, in this day and age, is shameful and suspicous.
I’ve seen a LOT of miracles in my lifetime to know that nobody has a chrystal ball with a time stamp on it for anybody. And brain injuries can have some hugely surprising outcomes. I’ve seen people who were left with a half a brain, fully recover. Some became geniuses even. But the quicker you try to prevent issues, and give the body everything at your disposal to use to fix it, the better.
Our family has also been personally afflicted with injuries such as this. Last night a family member broke his neck..a severe break...and the goal is to prevent any further nerve damage. Thanks to the articles here, I’ve been able to forward the links to his immediate family in the hope that further deteroration can be had, in the hope that a more full recovery is possible.
Lack of hope produces itself....lack...nothing. It produces death.
Not a hundredth that his sister Ima took.
I don't even recall that on the Terri Schaivo threads.
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