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Source: New York Daily News
BY
MINYVONNE BURKE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, November 16, 2017, 2:33 PM
Two Colorado doctors claim they have documented the first case of a person dying from consuming too much marijuana.
Drs. Thomas Nappe and Christopher Hoyte shared their findings in the journal, "Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine."
Nappe and Hoyte wrote in their study that the first person to die from a marijuana overdose was an 11-month-old boy.
The child, who died in 2015, was rushed to the emergency room after having a seizure. The boy's guardian told doctors that the child had been retching, was "irritable" and lethargic in the days leading up to his hospitalization.
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They believe the child consumed a lot of cannabis very quickly and the marijuana overdose caused the myocarditis, which ultimately killed him.
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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/baby-boy-marijuana-overdose-death-doctors-claim-article-1.3637939
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Related: Pediatric Death Due to Myocarditis After Exposure to Cannabis (Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine)
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)most likely put marijuana oil in his bottle or shot gunning him when he cried. This was not accidental, by any means.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)when it has it's maximum effect? What other factors are involved?
A large number of causes of myocarditis have been identified, but often a cause cannot be found. In Europe and North America, viruses are common culprits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocarditis
Something doesn't smell right here.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)myocarditis? I think they are reaching.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)to consume a lot without something yo drink
flotsam
(3,268 posts)http://www.thv11.com/news/health/colorado-doctors-claim-first-marijuana-overdose-death/492175327
9NEWS spoke to multiple ER doctors and medical researchers for this story. Many praised the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center as a top-tier institution for researching the issue, but none accepted this case as bulletproof evidence of a marijuana overdose death, though some were more open to the idea than others. One spoke on the record.
Im going to have to call BS on this one, Kaufman said. Im not saying that its not. But I think its a pretty big leap to say that it is.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)I saw on the news that the it helps dogs with arthritis and vets said it does work. I bought a little tube and gave her a dab the size of a grain of rice and an hour later she could barely stand up. I took her to the emergency vet's office and she had to stay overnight. They called the regular vet and she told me not to give her any pot/thc stuff again...even the kind they sell as dog cookies at the dispensaries where it is legal and legit. She told me dogs react to things differently than people do (which I already knew of course bit I thought this would be OK since a vet on the TV news). She could have died she said. Bad, bad me!!!!!
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)Doctors are studying weed's effect on epileptic seizures. It seems to help.
Now...infantile seizures and myocarditis can both be caused by infections, and the retching, irritability and lethargy can also be caused by infections. What this smells like to me: the baby came down with something fairly severe and the parents decided to doctor him up at home with cannabis. When they finally took the child to the doctor they admitted they'd used cannabis to treat him, and the doctor didn't hear another word.
marble falls
(57,343 posts)Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)A Colorado doctor who wrote a case report with a colleague detailing the death of an 11-month-old baby after he was exposed to cannabis is now saying the infant did not die from an overdose.
"We are absolutely not saying that marijuana killed that child," Dr. Thomas Nappe told the Washington Post on Thursday.
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According to KUSA, Hoyte said he and Nappe tried to find other causes for the boy's heart condition but could not find anything.
"The only thing that we found was marijuana. High concentrations of marijuana in his blood. And that's the only thing we found," Hoyte said. "The kid never really got better. And just one thing led to another and the kid ended up with a heart stopped. And the kid stopped breathing and died."
The report also said that it was "the first reported pediatric death associated with cannabis exposure."
Nappe, however, told the Washington Post that the word "associated" does not necessarily indicate there was a cause and effect.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/doctor-baby-boy-not-die-marijuana-overdose-article-1.3640087
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)When it comes to MJ, I know that the US pharmaceutical companies are in the process of developing or have already developed their own MJ/THC pill to treat many of the same illnesses and conditions - US pharma wants to compete with the MJ industry and the only way they can do this is to coerce medicinal MJ states to back-track on the availability/legality of MJ...
US pharma has a lot more $ to spread around to poison the public image of legal medical marijuana and I believe that US pharma is actively engaged in promoting propaganda, rumors and lies to damage/reduce the market for medical MJ.