Medicinal Use of Cannabis in Children and Pregnant Women

doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10382

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Medicinal Use of Cannabis in Children and Pregnant Women

Published Jan 1, 2020 · G. Koren, Rana Cohen

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal

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Abstract

The increasing medicinal use of cannabis during recent years has largely overlooked children and pregnant women due to litigious and ethical concerns. However, over the last few years medicine has observed increasing numbers of children treated with cannabis for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), and pregnant women treated for hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). This review provides an account of major findings discovered through this research. Specifically, cannabis may offer therapeutic advantages to behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and to the severe nausea and vomiting in hyperemesis gravidarum. The use of medical cannabis in children and pregnant women should be further discussed and researched in this patient population.

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Key takeawayCannabis may offer therapeutic advantages for behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and severe nausea and vomiting in hyperemesis gravidarum.

PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)

Sample size24

MethodsObservational

OutcomesBody Mass Index projections

ResultsSocial networks mitigate obesity in older groups.

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