Travolta Tragedy

" The fact involved segment tonight the autopsy of sixteen year old kid Travolta says he died from the seizure according to a source in the Bahamas once again. We've sent our condolences to the Travolta family which is enduring the worst torture in the world the loss the chop. Questions tonight how should CB handle and it is estimated that 10% of Americans experience and so that's thirty million people. The sound -- or -- Nowitzki director of the NYU epilepsy senator. And doctor Evelyn and I who has studied cases of college -- INS I don't know what card -- and syndrome is a you know just. Came up in this case but I understand anything do with. --"

" Right absolutely -- (%expletive) disease or syndrome. It's a very rare. Very rare. Kind of disease in which it affects actually the coronary arteries of the heart. Eventually I don't think so it didn't have any candidate you'll never lead to see -- wonder why this evening came up this house -- well I think that even need reviewing the tapes there is no connection made by wiley -- has come come -- I see somebody threw out there I think this ineffective because the trouble to it was just after."

" Now John Travolta's incriminated. Autopsy is over. The reports as I mentioned said he died of -- seizure. What we're all going up at school we know apple ethics and and it's around any you know you're trained I think he's going to swallow his tongue you put spoon under all this. But it's rare to -- have a seizure."

" It is rare to dive it's usually usually you die from the consequences of the seizure in other words you have a -- shouldn't driving. And you have an accident he let working have a -- we have an accident fall and well. That you for some kind of traumatic event but they say that procedure itself doctor."

" Yes I think that's probably one of the biggest messages that has not been made in the media and that is well known in the epilepsy community. And that is that. It's actually correct here. Death from a seizure is relatively rare. And if it happens for the average person with an occasional feature in office is in the setting of driving her drowning or something like that however. When you take an individual who has very poorly controlled major convulsive seizures -- this child appears to have had. And he may have been having won a week if you take someone like that look over a decade the risk of death from."

" All right as a leisure activities like it's like an earthquake in 88 -- mounts and mounts and -- in your body all of a -- gives out right or maybe something with the -- of the lungs something happens in these people with repetitive seizures especially the major ones that over a decade up to 8% can -- there's been a lot of talk. And we can't confirm any of this would -- reports are that it to the boy raised some city in autism. And that autistic children have a higher rate of seizure is that true absolutely fifteen to 20% of autistic children and adults will have epilepsy. And higher number associated Cecil autistic children it's not the autism that causes a siege here it's the epilepsy. But they have both sit situations you the truth is we don't know exactly what's going on but autism is a brain disorder. And if you have cerebral palsy if you have autism many of the developmental disorders that affect the brain make you much more liable to having a -- okay. Now it was reported that he was off medication because the medication didn't work anymore. In initially as he was young child and gave a medication. And the -- stopped ward were very infrequent and then they got more and more frequent so logically if you're a parent you take them off the medication."

" Don't know whether we don't know again these reports come out of the camp and we you know the boys having created so that'll never be defined -- certainty but your advice for people out there who we know somebody is hacker -- experiencing this is that you have to have occasion. You just can't let -- go."

" Most of the time you do have to have that patience. Okay he if you -- symptom -- usually fortified -- then and only then the fact tapering off of -- you don't get him for five years and you can experiment."

" Do you concur. I agree I think you know epilepsy is very individual so some people don't need to go on medications some people actually need to be on them for life. But in a case like this were seizures are -- major seizures once a week. That individual needs to be on medication and if the medication fails. There are at ten or dozen or more -- indicate bride wore were no medication -- capsule that's what I do but by the you have there are cases we just know medications tops a C correct. But this is -- we know it may be treated with one may be another medication there are many possible drugs so if you know anybody who has gentlemen have these seizures you have to get the best possible medical care and gotten very aggressive black about it. Thanks doctors we appreciate."