By some circumstances I live just in near of Emergency service for children, so I can observe some interesting phenomena. I noticed that there are some strange days when there are very lot of ambulance cars driving into the Emergency service with buzzer and signaling, but in other days there are only few.
I got to know from the administration of hospital that the signaling of ambulance car means something very bad happening with the child, something like Status Epilepticus. So I started to search the reasons for such days and noticed the influence of temperature changing, athmospheric pressure drop down and Moon phase.
For example, today in Mocsow the athmospheric pressure dropped from 756 to 725 in three days, and today in Full Moon. Lots of ambulance cars drove here yesterday and today.
Are there any proven investigations about this?
Similar with migraine attacks. These pervade in such days.
I understand there is a special whether report for migraine sufferers. It concerns drops in atmospheric pressure, not sure it also includes temperature and moon phase, but clinical observation does.
Keep sharing!
Hello, Elizabeth.
Thank you for interesting information.
BTW. Here attached is the graph of ictal manifestations of one patient, whom I observe, where the amount of attacks is plotted against Moon phase (divided into 10 % intervals). Fortunately the parents of this patient are very scrupulous, so I can get such interesting data for investigations.
Hello Roman
This is a pretty known phenomenon with no so much research on causal relationships.
Please, find attached this paper supporting your observations:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.08.020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.08.020
I can see how migraine headaches can be affected by this weather change but I am amazed about the seizures. I will have a quick look into our data here.
Hello, Alba. Thank you very much for responce. I've requested your paper, so if you are so kind, it would be very helpful for me.
Dear Khalid, it would be very interesting. At least the analysis of such relationship could be performed relatively quickly.