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Are O negatives more likely to suffer from epilepsy?

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I saw a question done by an rh negative about this and figured I look more into it. There is nothing on it yet. Nobody bothered to study frequencies amongst epileptics it seems. Yet there is a forum for epilepsy and someone bothered to ask this question:
What’s your Blood Type?
The poll is confusing and not accurate in terms of “votes”. But the people replying seem to be around 50% rh negative.
A second poll was started when this was pointed out and the voting was a lot less. In this one, the “winners” were O positive and O negative. 5 votes on each.

Historical illustration:
An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him.

And then there is this:

In a study of genetic markers in patients with epilepsy, 30 genetic systems have been tested and the results compared with all previously published studies on this subjects. Only one marker, Ss + ss/SS in the MNSs blood group system showed a statistically highly significant difference (p below 0.001) in the epileptic patients compared with a control group. A previously reported difference in the Pc gene of the red cell acid phosphatase system was not confirmed in the present study. The basis for an association between the S antigen and epilepsy is difficult to understand at present and will need to be confirmed by studies on other groups of epileptic patients and in the aetiologically different groups before being accepted. This is especially so as the Chalfont patients are the only group so far studied for this blood group system.

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2 Comments

  1. LeiFlower October 11, 2023 Reply

    I am the only one to be interested in this?
    I was found turning blue as a baby. My parents dipped me in cold water until I began breathing again.
    After that, I had grand mal seizures in my sleep about every two years.
    I was put on Dilantin at age 17 through about age 27.
    It seemed to go away.
    But much later in life I had stomach pains and an EEG. During the EEG I was so energized by adrenaline, that I couldn’t sleep. It was fine but then all of a sudden a big pain went through my stomach area.
    My husband and the technician saw the reaction on the screen and looked at me and I told them I just had a severe pain. They already knew as the screen showed it. I had such a lousy neurologist, he didn’t even read the report. That’s another matter.
    Once I began to actually realize that my blood was different – I wondered if my epilepsy was caused by my blood.

  2. beckigisme April 14, 2024 Reply

    I am O negative. My father was O negative. I have a brother and sister from his first marriage that are both O negative. His first wife was Rh negative. The Rh negative was inherited by my father from his mother. Which is supposedly a little odd seeing as she was full Native American and I’ve been told that is ‘supposedly’ not very common for Native Americans to have Rh negative. I’ve had 4 children but only one with the negative blood. So it is rather common in my family. I’m not sure what blood type my great grandparents were though. But no one in my family has ever had any issues with epilepsy, and I’ve never heard of it to be a common issue in Rh negative people. So I wouldn’t think it was anything to do with blood type. I would think it was from another issue. It could also be because your neurologist was lousy to begin with. I would see about finding another neurologist that would be able to focus on the root cause of your seizures, instead of just trying to fix the symptoms that he can’t even see.🙄 And I truly am sorry that you have had to go through such horrible experiences. My heart goes out to you.

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