Shortly after Kelly Cervantes' daughter Adelaide was born, she started having terrible seizures. Doctors were unable to give her a solution, or even a cause. We never had an overarching diagnosis for her, which was extraordinarily frustrating and isolating.
If we did, we could join groups or talk to people who had various symptoms in common. We also had no idea what her prognosis looked like, or if we could have other children." Kelly Cervantes, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) Over time her condition worsened and sadly she died five days before her fourth birthday.
"She never really progressed past about a three-to-six-month physical development, and we're not entirely sure where she was intellectually. She was incredible but her life was really challenging and really hard." Cervantes had enrolled her daughter in a research program for people with undiagnosed illnesses.
After her daughter's death she got a call asking if she'd like to participate in a study being conducted at The Neuro. Now the results of that study have been published. Related Stories Bed-sharing is unlikely to harm children's psychological health, study finds Expanded use of common antibiotic cuts child mortality by 14% in Sub-Saharan Africa Chronic cough can be passed down from parents to children, a new study suggests The scientists analyzed samples from Adeliade and 21 other people with the condition.
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