Cannabis oil relieves chronic seizures suffered by six-year-old niece of Aston Villa star Gabby Agbonlahor

• Olivia Petter
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The parents of a six-year-old girl from Birmingham have been treating their daughter’s undiagnosed brain condition with cannabis oil.

Jayla Agbonlahor, niece of Aston Villa footballer Gabby Agbonlahor, was rushed to hospital when she was just days old after her parents had noticed that she’d stopped breathing.

Initially, doctors suspected epilepsy, however, after five months of hospital care they identified that the problem was in baby Jayla’s brain, reports the Sunday Mercury.

Her condition left her suffering from regular seizures which hospitalised her every three to four weeks.

Up until recently she was unable to walk, talk, eat or drink and was fed only through a tube in her stomach.

She also suffered from a cardiac arrest as a baby.

“Watching her so lifeless has damaged me inside,” mother Louise Bostock wrote on her child’s Go Fund Me page, which has so far raised £5,526 for Bostock and her family, who are based in Erdington, Birmingham.

What’s more, Jayla’s condition proved resistant to traditional medication and her parents were told by doctors that she would most likely die at an early age.

After researching the benefits of cannabis oil, 33-year-old Bostock began treating her daughter in secret when she was four-years-old, to the subsequent dismay of her doctors.

Within weeks Jayla was having fewer seizures and had even started eating normally and smiling.

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