Can dogs predict epileptic seizures?
23 June 2004
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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Some dogs appear to be able to predict when their owner or a child they know well is going to have an epileptic fit. The dogs would whimper or lick the owner warning of the impending problem. According to research from Alberta Children's Hospital in Canada, lead researcher Adam Kirton showed that of about 90 dogs who lived with chilidren and people with epilepsy about 15% were able to quite accurately and specifically predict when a person was going to have a seizure. How this remarkable skill for some dogs works is not entirely certain but it may be that there is some slight change in a persons face that occurs just before a seizure happens. The dog then picks up on this and alerts them. |
 Woof, woof, lick lick you may be having a seizure! |
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