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New Delhi. A reputed private hospital in the national capital said on Tuesday that they came across a unique case in which a nine-year-old girl started having seizures after applying henna on her hands. According to a statement issued by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a research paper in this matter has been published in the January 2023 edition of ‘Clinical Neurophysiology’. According to the statement, the neurology department of the hospital recently came across a “unique” case in which a nine-year-old girl was having seizures after applying henna.
The doctors at the hospital said that when the girl suffered her first seizure after applying henna, “suddenly she fell unconscious and her body was in agony for 20 seconds.” She was recently brought to the hospital for further tests, they said. Senior physician (Col.) P.K. According to Sethi, “This is a unique case of seizures, where the patient was having seizures due to some external cause, whereas this usually does not happen. Was falling due to planting.
the smell of henna was giving her seizures
The doctors told that henna was applied on the patient’s right hand under the supervision of the doctors in the hospital. He told that mehndi has its own fragrance and as soon as it was applied on the hand of the patient, the hand was taken near the chest, he started having seizures. Sethi said that in the medical examination, it was found that the patient was not having seizures by applying mehndi on his hands or feet, rather he was having seizures due to the smell of mehndi.
