A 2-month-old infant in Colorado is being treated with cannabis oil for seizures has become the youngest medical marijuana patient on record. The child, Amylea Nunez, who has a rare form of epilepsy, was brought to Denver seeking treatment from the family home in Albuquerque.
The little girl began having as many as 15 seizures per day. The first medication given to her had the potential to harm her liver, so the Nunez family immediately started working to bring her to neighboring Colorado, where marijuana is legal.
The infant is being treated with the now well-known Charlotte’s Web CBD oil. The oil is ideal for children as it contains virtually no THC, the compound that gets a user high. Instead it is high in the CBD compound.
Charlotte’s Web cannabis oil came to national attention after CNN profiled Charlotte Figi, a 6-year-old who had been suffering up to 300 grand mal seizures per week due to a rare type of epilepsy known as Dravet Syndrome. After being unsuccessfully treated with every conventional treatment known they tried cannabis oil, with stunning results. The oil nearly eliminated the girl’s seizures, and the parents report she is thriving.
Having been weaned off the other seizure medication, Amylea’s parents report that she is more alert, and is looking around and following their faces when they talk to her. Previously she had to reaction at all to being spoken to.
Amylea is the youngest child participating in a Children’s Hospital study that is looking at how children react to cannabis oil. The treatment remains illegal in some states, and access to it can be difficuly.