New Zealand family's desperate quest for cannabis oil
Treatment for a young man in an induced coma for 54 days is being held back because of the politics and bureaucracy around medicinal marijuana, his mother says.
Nelson teen Alex Renton was hospitalised in early April after a serious seizure. He has been in an induced coma in Wellington's intensive care unit since April 8.
Alex remains in 'status epilepticus', a kind of prolonged seizure.
"The seizure has sort of stuck on. They can't get under the receptors with the medication to stop the seizures." said his mother Rose Renton said.
Despite a barrage of tests, the underlying cause remains unknown, although doctors suspect some variety of auto-immune encephalitis. Two attempts to wake him and multiple varieties of anti-epileptic medication have failed to make an impact.
"He's still in seizure, so they cannot wake him, because it's life threatening," Renton said.
Alex has spent 54 days in the induced...
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