Comments on: No Link Between Kawasaki, Travolta Death

Childhood Kawasaki Disease Unlikely Cause Of Seizures In Travolta's Teenage Son Jett Travolta

[debinok1]

The worst part of this is the actual cause of death will never be known. His parents had the autopsy performed outside the U.S. and had the body cremated outside the U.S. so any chance of a second autopsy is gone. Of course add to the fact that the parents are famous makes it even less likely that any further investigation will be done.

[pat1967-2009]

LadyLuv5,

What I am actually tired of is seeing this story in the front page news for several days now. People die all the time and barely warrant a mention in the obits. Where the comments about Scientology come from, is when John Travolta goes on TV talking about how cleaning chemicals caused Kawasaki Syndrome. The truth is that doctors don''t know what causes Kawasaki syndrome, just that it happens from time to time, but does not exhibit seizures. Jett Travolta, from what is known, seems to have exhibited signs of some form of autism or other mental disorder. The direct criticism of Scientology comes from its denial of mental disorders, despite decades of intense research on the subject.

[credibility2]

We''ll never really know what caused the terribly untimely death of this child. That Kawasaki disease was bandied about as an inference was a bit odd. I''m inclined to believe that more than likely the child had untreated autism which became more severe without certain medications which Scientology rejects. I''m certain the Travolta''s dearly loved their child, but I''m also saddened that perhaps their fanaticism with their "religion" possibly could''ve interfered with this child living a longer, perhaps more fruitful life. Too much will be covered up and the truth will never be known.

[mcapek]

Achh...newspeople = medical morons. I suggest you correct the "lymph node greater than 1.5 mm". It should be greater than 1.5 centimeters (10 fold difference).

[ladyluv5]

This is a very sad situation. In one hand you have a family who lost their son, on the other hand you have the media, gossip sites, and people saying how they could of saved their son, or how their religion is the cause of their sons death. No matter is they practiced Buddhism, Jehovah Witness, Christianity, or Islam we would be gossiping about what they did wrong. It very sad that we as American people have stooped so low. We all need to keep this family and others who have lost a family member to the same disease in prayer.

[davisrogers]

Here are the facts Jett had been taking an anti-seizure medication, Depakote, but over time, the drug%u2019s effectiveness had worn off. Fact, Jet also had Kawasaki syndrome. Kawasaki syndrome - Some of these symptoms may come and go during the course of the illness. If left untreated, the symptoms will eventually relent, but coronary artery aneurysms will not improve, resulting in a significant risk of death or disability due to myocardial infarction (heart attack). Approximately 2000-4000 cases are identified in the United States each year. The combination of multiple disease can cause high risk of death.

[tmittelstaed]

One of the tenets of Scientology is that mental illness is psychosomatic. This is a belief that has no basis in science - and indeed most of Scientology isn''t based on anything logical. (In fact the Church of Scientology''s tax free status is dependent on the premise that ALL of Scientology is a religious belief, and therefore has no basis on any logical science) Thus, of course the Church and Jeff''s parents aren''t going to believe that autism was a valid diagnosis - and obviously, since they didn''t believe in it, they never had Jeff evaulated for autism.
In any case, it really doesn''t matter if he had autism or not since seizures can be caused by many things - Jeff obviously had a seizure in the bath and fell - cause of death was the fall, not the seizure or the cause of the seizure.
Many people die every year due to falls, even those people who are careful and take precautions against falling. This is just a sad accident.

[davisrogers]

This is truly sad, and for reliable media such as CBS to add gossip news to their post makes me to wounder what has happen to real news? Thank Mr. Daniel DeNoon for providing the facts of this still unknown disease.