Girl Suffers 50 Seizures in a Day, Pet Dog Multiple Life-Saving Rescues
A 9-year-old girl from the English county of Surrey, MillieWebb, suffers from a very severe form of epilepsy, with approximately 50 seizures per day, and it is difficult to control her condition with medication. Fortunately, the pet dog Elmo seems to always 'predict' the moments of her seizures.'
Millie's condition is very serious; she has even had seizures while playing in her family's swimming pool, so Millie's parents don't even let her be alone. In the past five years, they have tried 12 different types of medication, but none of them worked. But Millie has formed a bond with a one-year-old pet dog, Elmo, which seems to be able to predict her seizures.'
Millie's father, Stuart, says that when Millie has a seizure in the swimming pool, the pet dog Elmo pulls her out, and keeps licking her face to calm her down, while also helping her clear excess saliva to prevent choking. In June, one day, Millie was sleeping on the sofa, when Elmo suddenly got up and licked her face, and her mother, Linda, was about to drive Elmo away, and then she realized that Millie was about to have a seizure.'
Millie's family is now urgently hoping to train Elmo to become a fully mature assistance dog to help her daughter. The mother says that Elmo can already recognize the symptoms of seizures; it just needs appropriate training to understand how to alert those around her, so that Millie can go to the places she wants to go to with confidence.
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