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Child who inspired cannabidiol law receives first doses

 

It took only a simple phrase to see how Mary Louise Swing’s life would improve from cannabidiol. On vacation with family in Myrtle Beach last weekend, Mary Louise stunned her mother, Jill, and a roomful of relatives with a simple “Hi everybody” as she got out of bed. For 6-year-old Mary Louise, who suffers from intractable epilepsy, it was a small, uplifting first step. “She just doesn’t say that,” Jill Swing said. “It’s been delightful. She was nonverbal, but she’s saying more words now. She’s a chatterbox.”

 

Mary Louise received her first dose of CBD oil Saturday, about four months after the bill allowing children to receive the oil extracted from marijuana was signed into law. The oil helps children like Mary Louise with severe epilepsy control their seizures.

 

At a 45-minute physical-therapy session the week before she started receiving doses, Mary Louise suffered more than 100 seizures, Jill Swing said. On Monday, at her first session since receiving CBD oil, she had only 19. Before receiving the oil, her daughter sometimes suffered as many as 200 seizures an hour. Two medications reduced the number to about 60 an hour.

 

Swing, of Mount Pleasant, started her daughter on a small dose of CBD oil — a half-milliliter of the concentrated oil, diluted in coconut oil — three times a day. With Mary Louise responding well, Swing said her daughter’s doses will continue to increase each week.

 

State Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, authored the bill that legalized CBD oil. He began working on the bill after hearing of Mary Louise’s condition from her grandmother, Beaufort resident Harriett Hilton. He shared the news of the girl’s improving condition on his Facebook page, a post that received more than 40,000 views.

 

More: https://www.thestate.com/news/business/health-care/article13896149.html