Minutus

Hi Shannon

The information that I have given came on a news broadcast on BBC and also
the site I refer to.

I have no more info - but it seems that it is a chronic disease killing the
patient before they reach 20!

I found the site of some missionary workers - perhaps if we formulate some
questions to ask, we could ask them to help by responding - it is almost
like an epidemic!

Rgds
Soroush

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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:03:36 -0500
From: Bob&Shannon
Subject: Re: Nodding Disease

Hi Soroush,

What role does food play in these children's life? (Beyond the obvious, I
mean!) Is there a shortage or disruption, such that the food might be
attached to any particular issues or situation or emotional response?

Since this has occurred within a small area and mostly to children, perhaps
it's worth looking for nutritional causation -- is the quality, quantity or
type of food different from usual? (For example, I think that certain types
of severe electrolyte imbalance [magnesium?] could lead to all of that and
be eventually fatal, tho easily corrected if the cause is known. I freely
admit this could be totally off-base...)

But to know how to rep the connection with food, I think we'd need more
information from particular cases, wouldn't we?

Shannon

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Dear Soroush, you might want to do a search for this disease if you want
further information. Apparently it has been going on for more than a decade.
The sx also include the nodding coming on during as well as after eating and
only when they eat the local diet of beans and starch. The children can
also fall and collapse with the nodding.

Might it be related to Spasmus nutans, sx of which develop due to tumours in
the brain?

That's all I have. So your original question about " How shall we use the
info about the fact that Nodding starts when presented with food?" needs to
be altered somewhat.

Causation could be parasitic, bacterial, poison +++ ??

Best, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
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Hmmmm? Beans and starch! It might be interesting to research what seeds are being used
to grow the 'local' diet. Companies like Monsanto are shipping GM seeds around the world. This
company in particular is experimenting with inserting pesticides and antibiotics into the seeds' DNA.
I worry that at some point we will begin to see sx developing that do not make any sense. Could
this be the beginning of this nightmare?

tanya

Dear Tanya and Soroush - it could indeed be the start of a nightmare if it
isn't already. I am curious as to why it seems to be effecting children only
(is that the case?).

Interestingly there is a rubric - head movements after eating - and
Aluminium is one of the remedies, possibly there is a source of this poison
getting into the food as it would certainly cover the sx.

Best, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 9/24/03 12:44 PM, tanya at tamarque@frontiernet.net wrote:

Hmmmm? Beans and starch! It might be interesting to research what seeds
are being used
to grow the 'local' diet. Companies like Monsanto are shipping GM seeds
around the world. This
company in particular is experimenting with inserting pesticides and
antibiotics into the seeds' DNA.
I worry that at some point we will begin to see sx developing that do not
make any sense. Could
this be the beginning of this nightmare?

tanya

Also what the "starch" is, whether it is whole grain or something else?
Shannon
on 9/24/03 6:44 AM, tanya at tamarque@frontiernet.net wrote: