Epilepsy: Hospital confiscates CBD-rich oil from patient.

A doctor of psychiatry and aunt of a young girl with epilepsy is angry with the doctors at London's famous George's Hospital. They confiscated her niece Kayleigh's CBD oil within the hospital, even though it was totally legal on English soil.

Her epileptic seizures increase from 10 a day to 200.

Danlanya Morris accuses the hospital team of endangering the life of her epileptic niece by denying her access to her cannabidiol-rich oil.

She explains that it is an attack on human rights to act in this way.

She explains: "CBD oil worked perfectly for her. The product that the hospital prevented me from giving her is legal, as it's classified as a dietary supplement."

Kayleigh has the mental capacity of a child of about 10, due to a lack of oxygen during a difficult birth.

"Doctors have been trying different anti-epileptic treatments on Kayleigh for several years. None of them have kept her seizures under control."

"These treatments caused her severe headaches, dizziness and nausea every day. She has completely lost her appetite and therefore a lot of weight, and her quality of life as a patient has been greatly impacted."

Dantanya raised her niece as a child from the age of seven.

Next, Kayleigh was prescribed lamotrigine, a drug with known side effects such as vomiting and blood clotting problems that have potentially endangered her life.

She was admitted to hospital in Kingston for eight days after vomiting blood, and then needed a blood transfusion. That's when I told her neurologist that I was afraid the drugs would kill her. I told her I'd done a lot of research and wanted to try treating her with CBD alone. But she was very opposed to that and to taking her off anti-epileptic drugs.

"An epilepsy nurse told me she couldn't officially approve of what I was doing, but she told me how to safely wean her off her medication and that's what I did."

Morris also asked the hospital for a medical cannabis license, but was simply "ignored". "They didn't even respond to my letter," she said.

So Mrs Morris continued to use CBD oil - and reduced Kayleigh's number of seizures from over 50 to less than 10 a day.

Last week, Kayleigh was admitted to St George's Hospital, Tooting, for assessment as her neurologist had questioned whether she was actually suffering from epilepsy:

"It was supposed to be a 48-hour evaluation to determine her condition and within 10 minutes they wanted to administer new antispasmodics, Kayleigh got upset because she's absolutely terrified of medication, because of what she'd been through in the past."

The doctors then warned her that it was illegal for her not to take her medication.

"She has learning difficulties not unlike autism - and she's very childlike. The way they treated her caused her a lot of anxiety and stress, they wanted to calm her down with a drug similar to Valium. She now fears hospitals even more."

Despite Mrs Morris's protests, the nursing staff put Kayleigh on two new anti-epileptic molecules.

Mrs. Morris explained that she had obtained special guardianship of Kayleigh and her sister:

"She's now having over 200 epileptic seizures a day, due to the lack of CBD oil, for a week, but also related to the stress and anxiety caused by the way she's been physically handled: They wanted to inject medication into the back of her head to relieve her headaches, when I told them CBD worked and she didn't need it, they told me I wasn't allowed to administer it. They monitor us 24/7 in a locked room - they've made us prisoners in the hospital."

A spokesperson for St George's Hospital said:

"We cannot discuss every aspect about the care we provide to a patient as this is confidential data. However, we would like to emphasize that decisions about the care and treatment provided by our clinicians are made in the best interests of the patients and communities in our care."

Translation provided by SMC Laboratories® SA. Article written by Claudia TANNER for www.inews.co.uk: " Aunt's fury as doctors confiscate her epileptic niece's legal CBD oil in hospital - causing her seizures to rise from 10 a day to 200".