Amylea Nunez, an infant from Colorado is the youngest patient to be treated with the controversial cannabis oil. She suffered from frequent and debilitating seizures that sometimes prevented her from waking up for a full day, and she was diagnosed shortly after her December birth with a rare form of epilepsy. Doctors prescribed eight different
Amylea Nunez, an infant from Colorado is the youngest patient to be treated with the controversial cannabis oil. She suffered from frequent and debilitating seizures that sometimes prevented her from waking up for a full day, and she was diagnosed shortly after her December birth with a rare form of epilepsy.
Doctors prescribed eight different medications for the newborn infant, but her condition remained relatively unchanged.
Amylea was flown from New Mexico to a hospital in Aurora, Colorado, where the baby’s parents begged doctors to prescribe cannabis oil. Doctors were reluctant to give the drug to such a young patient, but they eventually agreed — although physicians wouldn’t administer cannabis oil themselves. Amylea began cannabis oil at two months old, and she lifted her head for the first time three months later. She came back home to Albuquerque last week, at six months old, and her family said the baby still requires special care.
