Unschooling Series with Paige Carter (Parent, Advocate, Community Leader, Business Owner): Week 5 - A Family Weighs CBD For Epilepsy And PDA

About this episode

The episode discusses a family's experience with unschooling and their consideration of CBD oil for managing epilepsy and PDA after conventional treatments failed.

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you remove the biggest triggers from a child’s day and the seizures stop? We sit down with Paige Carter to unpack a remarkable shift since Oakland left school, the role stress and heat play in absence and atonic seizures, and why the family is cautiously considering CBD oil after exhausting conventional options. From risperidone’s early wins and later costs, to stimulants that sparked agitation, to a thick, red seizure medicine that collided with PDA-driven ...

People in this episode

Host: Dana Baltutis

Guest: Paige Carter

Topics covered

• unschooling
• epilepsy
• PDA
• CBD oil
• family health
• parenting choices

Keywords

• unschooling
• CBD oil
• epilepsy
• PDA
• parenting
• family health
• seizures
• risperidone
• stimulants

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Products: CBD oil, risperidone, seizure medicine, stimulants

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