Kayla Mohr has suffered from epilepsy for ten years. She had already explained to her four-year-old son, Logan, that if she ever saw her having a seizure, she had to go find her father. Last month, she was even more receptive.
One day, while preparing her son for school, the American resident of the state of Wisconsin begins to feel bad, she explains to the American television channel HLN, a subsidiary of CNN. She then sits up, calls for help, and then starts having an epileptic seizure.
“My mom is having a seizure”
Therefore, you cannot speak when the emergency services pick up the phone. In the recording of the call, broadcast by HLN, her baby is heard answering her questions. “My mother is having a seizure,” she says, “her legs and head are shaking.” When she asks if her mother can talk on the phone, she says no. The line operator then asks if she knows “if it’s called an ‘epileptic seizure,'” and he confirms that she does.
Logan stayed on the phone until an ambulance arrived, his one-year-old sister at his side. His mother was treated.
“You can’t train a kid to do that, it’s just instinct,” an emotional Kayla Mohr tells HLN.
The boy was met by the local sheriff, obtained a first aid certificate and met the woman he spoke with during the call.
600,000 people affected in France
Epilepsy is, according to Health Insurance, a chronic disease characterized by the appearance of seizures, which “reflect a sudden and transient interruption of the electrical activity of the brain.”
Seizures are not the only symptoms: a seizure can also cause disorientation, loss of consciousness, or even sensory disturbances (visual, auditory, taste).
An epileptic seizure can have a variety of consequences, including fall-related trauma, muscle cell destruction, and neurological sequelae if it lasts for a long time, due to insufficient oxygen supply and massive release of chemical messengers by neurons.
According to the World Health Organization, a UN agency, the cause of epilepsy remains unknown for 50% of cases worldwide. The disease can come, for example, from a brain tumor, a severe head injury, a stroke… 600,000 people suffer from epilepsy in France and almost half of them are under 20 years old, according to Inserm, a public medical research institute .
Source: BFM TV
