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Alfie Dingley endured 500 seizures a month before using cannabis

Alfie Dingley endured 500 seizures a month before using cannabis

An 11-year-old boy used to suffer from 500 seizures a month before he became the first first person to get the Class B drug prescribed on the NHS. Mother-of-two Hannah Deacon, 43, from Kenilworth won her fight for the NHS to prescribe medical cannabis after seeing how well it improved her son’s epilepsy symptoms. In November 2018, Alfie Dingley, now 11,

An 11-year-old boy used to suffer from 500 seizures a month before he became the first first person to get the Class B drug prescribed on the NHS.

Mother-of-two Hannah Deacon, 43, from Kenilworth won her fight for the NHS to prescribe medical cannabis after seeing how well it improved her son’s epilepsy symptoms.

In November 2018, Alfie Dingley, now 11, became the first person to receive the prescription after the law changed to allow the prescribing of unlicensed cannabis based medicinal products in certain circumstances.

Four years later, Hannah details how her family has ‘a better life’ now that 11-year-old Alfie Dingley’s health has improved as a result of the drug.

At eight months old Alfie suffered from his first epileptic seizure.

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