Boy's epileptic fits stop after he visits US and uses cannabis
Doctors are successfully using cannabis to treat a schoolboy with an ‘uncontrollable’ form of epilepsy.
Billy Caldwell, 11, from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland has been suffering frequent and life-threatening seizures for almost all his life.
But he’s gone 15 days without a fit after doctors in Los Angeles started giving him daily doses of cannabis oil to swallow.
His mother Charlotte, who flew to the US with him now hopes politicians in the UK will legalise the drug for medicinal use.
‘Billy isn’t sitting smoking joints, obviously, he gets daily syringes of the oil into his mouth – and the results speak for themselves,’ said Charlotte.
‘Billy has been taking the cannabis oil for a few weeks now. He hasn’t had a seizure for 16 days when before he was having around seven every week.
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