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1. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:00

   My son, um, who was six months old at the time, um, he, he had been breastfed for six months, uh, by my wife. And we went on holiday to France just after Christmas, and on the first day he was... he wasn't so well. We thought he had a cold. He was bringing up a lot of mucus and, and my wife didn't put him down to sleep as normal in the evening. It's his mother's intuition. She knew something wasn't quite right, and she just kept him with her in her arms. And we were in France at my friend's chalet, and she called out to me, said, "Rangan, Rangan, you've got to come here. He's not moving." A- and basically, my son had put his arms back. He'd gone rigid and stiff, um, and wasn't really responsive. Now, I thought, "Maybe he's choking. Maybe he's, he's choked on some of the mucus that he's been bringing up all day."

2. MHDr. Mark Hyman0:54

   Yeah.

3. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:55

   And I turn him over. I tried to clear his airway. Nothing was happening. If I'm honest, Mark, I froze.

4. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:01

   You thought he was gonna die.

5. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:03

   Yeah. I, I froze in that moment. I, I wasn't a doctor with all my experience. I was just a scared father, and it was actually my wife who said, "Rangan, look, we've got to get him to the hospital now." So we drove to the hospital, which wasn't far. It was just two minutes down the road, although I nearly killed us on the way-

6. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:17

   [laughs]

7. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:17

   ... because it had just snowed in the French Alps.

8. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:20

   Yeah, yeah.

9. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:20

   I nearly turned the car over. And we got there, and what's really interesting is that the, the doctors and the nurses were really worried. You could tell they were worried because my son didn't have a temperature. And, you know, as, as you well know, it's not uncommon for a six-month-old baby to have a convulsion-

10. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:39

    A febrile seizure

11. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:40

    ... a febrile convulsion-

12. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:41

    Yeah

13. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:41

    ... you know, secondary to the temperature, but his temperature was normal.

14. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:45

    Yeah.

15. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:45

    And you could see the doctors wondering, "Well, his temperature's normal."

16. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:48

    What's going on?

17. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:49

    "What is going on?" So they put a line in his neck, you know. I actually had to help hold him down while they put a line in his neck, which was pretty traumatic for me.

18. MHDr. Mark Hyman1:56

    Yeah.

19. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:57

    He had to be, uh, blue lighted and in an ambulance down to a bigger hospital because this was a very small regional hospital.

20. MHDr. Mark Hyman2:02

    Yeah.

21. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:03

    We got there. They didn't know what was going on. He had two lumbar punctures. And, you know, my wife and I were in a bit of a state of shock.

22. MHDr. Mark Hyman2:08

    Oh, God. Yeah.

23. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:09

    You're like, "What is going on?" You know.

24. MHDr. Mark Hyman2:10

    Mm-hmm.

25. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:11

    We're a pretty health conscious family. Um, you know, why is he having this convulsion?

26. MHDr. Mark Hyman2:15

    Yeah.

27. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:15

    And, you know, we weren't sure he was gonna make it. And, um, you know, it, it took a few hours before a doctor came and spoke to us and said, "Look, we know why he's had a convulsion. He's got very low levels of calcium in his body. So he's got a... He had a hypocalcemic convulsion." So-

28. MHDr. Mark Hyman2:35

    Yeah. Low calcium levels is dangerous.

29. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:37

    Yeah.

30. MHDr. Mark Hyman2:37

    Yeah.

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