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Nasal spray bill could mean difference for epileptic student

February 28, 2013

http://www.komonews.com/living/health/Nasal-spray-bill-could-mean-difference-for-epileptic-students--193944341.html

 

Source - KOMO TV


Tri-Cities mother Heather Franklin’s otherwise healthy 11-year-old son Beau suffered his first seizure in November. Doctors could find no explanation for the traumatic event, but a month later he had a second seizure. Franklin now sends her son to school with midazolam, a medication that can be sprayed into Beau’s nose to stop his seizures. Dr. Rusty Novotny, director of Medical Epilepsy at Seattle Children’s Hospital, talks about seizures.

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