Ketogenic Diet for Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
网页2019年1月23日 — The "classic" ketogenic diet is a special high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that helps to control seizures in some people with epilepsy. It is prescribed by a physician and carefully monitored by a dietitian. It is usually used in children with seizures that do not respond to medications.
Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy: What We Know So Far - PMC
网页2019年1月29日 — The Ketogenic Diet (KD) is a modality of treatment used since the 1920s as a treatment for intractable epilepsy. It has been proposed as a dietary treatment that would produce similar benefits to fasting, which is …
Ketogenic Diet for Epilepsy and Sample Menu - Verywell Health
网页2023年5月5日 — 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.
Ketogenic Diet (Keto Diet) for Epilepsy - Cleveland Clinic
网页The ketogenic diet is a way of treating patients with unmanaged epilepsy. The diet — high in fats and low in carbs — works by changing how the brain gets energy to function. Although not well understood, this diet has successfully reduced seizures in many patients.
Ketogenic Diet Therapy for Epilepsy - Johns Hopkins Medicine
网页One of the oldest treatments for epilepsy is the classic ketogenic diet, which involves consuming high-fat foods and very few carbohydrates. Johns Hopkins is a longstanding pioneer in this mode of therapy.
Ketogenic diet for epilepsy: an overview of systematic review
网页2022年1月13日 — Ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) is an established nonpharmacologic treatment in the various types of epilepsy. Classic Ketogenic diet (CKD), a strict low carbohydrate content (5–10% of total...
The keto diet protects against epileptic seizures. Scientists are ...
网页2023年12月15日 — 3 min read. The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is more than just a trendy weight-loss tactic. It has also been known to help control seizures in children with epilepsy, particularly those who don’t respond to first-line anti-seizure medications.
Ketogenic diet - Epilepsy Society
网页2020年2月23日 — The ketogenic diet is one treatment option for children or adults with epilepsy whose seizures are not controlled with anti-seizure medications (ASMs). The diet may help to reduce the number or severity of …
Keto Diet for Epilepsy: Does It Help? - Healthline
网页2024年2月27日 — According to a 2017 study on adults with highly refractory epilepsy (when seizures can’t be completely managed with medications), a keto diet effectively reduced seizure frequency by 50% or...
Keto Diet Therapy Recommendations Set for Adults With Epilepsy…
网页2020年10月30日 — Within the past two decades, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and others have shown that ketogenic diet therapies — high-fat, low-carbohydrate and adequate protein diets that metabolize fat into chemicals called ketones that protect the brain and foster healthy neuron growth — are safe and effective in treating both children …