Oxalate Sensitivity (increase seizures)

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It is VERY difficult to remove seizures if you are unknowingly eating or taking something that causes seizures. Because once ingested it can take a day at least for it to leave your system. No seizure med or supplement that I’m aware of can break thru that. 

I have been unknowingly giving Kam seizures for years and had no idea! I thought all his seizures were from his Epilepsy, I was wrong. 

For one, there are Oxalates.

Oxalates can cause seizures and also create

inflammation. Oxalates can also damage

mitochondria. Oxalates decrease mitochondrial

function and increase oxidative stress. Oxidative

stress and mitochondrial dysfunction are involved

in neuronal death and seizures.

When Kam was a baby I had a gut feeling that

certain foods were causing seizures but l ignored

my common sense because I didn't think a food or a pain killer or even an allergy pill could give him seizures. He will go from 0-2 to 8-10 easily in a day. 

First, when we first gave him peanut butter when

he was a baby he had this strange reaction to it

and still does. If you give him peanut butter to eat after 3 hours he will throw up and it will last

for 3 hours, sick as a dog. 

Foods that give Kam seizures:

AVOCADOS

ALMOND BUTTER & ALMOND MILK 

SOY DRINKS (capsules fine)

CARROTS

I try not to add new foods because I don't want

to spike his seizures, but like a baby I have to

introduce one food at a time so I know what is

affecting him. I know 2 cups of Almond Milk gives him seizures as well as a two half servings of Almond Butter. That a small amount of Avocado and a few oz of carrot juice spike his seizures. I don’t know Kam’s limit. But I’m not comfortable with testing that limit. I omit the foods because I know what it does to him. That’s just a choice I have made. It’s not worth it to me. 

Link below of full list of high Oxalate foods and a list of the amount in the plant based milks as well as cows milk.

https://www.thekidneydietitian.org/oxalate-in-coconut-milk/