One seizure left her crippled – but doctors have no answers for girl, 10, as she battles incredibly rare brain disease that has no cure – Daily Mail

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Jayda Suttie was in gym class when she collided heads with a boy while running.

What would have been a bump on the head for any normal child caused a grand mal seizure for Jayda that lasted more than 20 minutes.

The nine-year-old and her family didn’t know then, but the seizure was the tip-off that she had the rare vanishing white matter brain disease, something her doctors in Vancouver have never encountered.

Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4889528/Grand-mal-seizure-shows-rare-brain-disease-child.html