The ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment option for patients with intractable epilepsy. The recent resurgence of interest in the KD has led to an explosion of research into its clinical implementation, as well as its underlying mechanisms. The KD is often initiated in the hospital, ...
A stepwise increase in the utilization of ketogenic dietary therapies for drug-resistant epilepsy has been observed in Italy in the last decade, although it is still considered often underused in many centers when compared to other countries. The Dietary Therapy Study Group of...
The ketogenic diet (KD) is an effective treatment option for patients with intractable epilepsy. The recent resurgence of interest in the KD has led to an explosion of research into its clinical implementation, as well as its underlying mechanisms. The KD is often initiated in the hospital, and...
Recipes and resources for patients in the UK affected by drug resistant epilepsy, Glut1 deficiency syndrome and other conditions requiring a ketogenic diet.
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The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago also offers aKetogenic Diet programfor children with epilepsy. ThisEpilepsy Therapieswebsite also has some helpful information on using dietary therapies in epilepsy treatment. You can find other physicians and hospitals which provide epilepsy...
In fact, Norton Children’s Hospital and the University of Louisville have been offering a keto diet program to epilepsy patients for the past 15 years.
The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, adequate-protein diet that has been used for more than eight decades for the treatment of refractory epilepsy in children. Despite this long history, the mechanisms by which the KD exerts its anti-seizure action are not fully understood...
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet used to treat epilepsy. It is commonly recommended for children with refractory (treatment-resistant) epilepsy. Adults with epilepsy also benefit from the keto diet and similar plans. Study results vary, but many have shown that a ...
The use of ketogenic diet therapies (KDT) in adults has expanded in the last two decades and has been accompanied by a surge of new retrospective as well as prospective studies evaluating its efficacy in adults with epilepsy. In this review article, we will highlight the recent clinical trials...