Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Mandal, Ananya. (2023, June 20). Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy.

Find out what kinds of foods your child can eat if she takes up the ketogenic diet, and learn about the challenges and side effects of a meal plan that gets rid of seizures in some kids with epilepsy.

Children on the ketogenic diet had significantly higher fasting breath acetone compared with epilepsy or healthy controls (2530 ± 600 nmol/L versus 19 ± 9 nmol/L and 21 ± 4 nmol/L, respectively ...

Study: Ketogenic diet-produced β-hydroxybutyric acid accumulates brain GABA and increases GABA/glutamate ratio to inhibit epilepsy.Image Credit: SewCreamStudio / Shutterstock.com. Background. The ...

Ketogenic diet is beneficial to people with epilepsy. The ketogenic diet increases the conversion of glutamate into glutamine into GABA, reducing neuronal excitability. I have been a devoted ...

The ketogenic diet can be effective in treating individuals with drug resistant epilepsy from infancy to adulthood. Up to 60% of children who try a supervised ketogenic diet experienced a 50% or ...

The ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children remains controversial. Intractable epilepsy – of which Lennox-Gastaut is a prime example – refers to a type of epilepsy that ...

The ketogenic diet has been shown in many studies to be particularly helpful for some epilepsy conditions. These include infantile spasms, Rett syndrome, tuberous sclerosis complex, Dravet ...

Neuroscientists led by Chris Dulla at Tufts University School of Medicine prevented the development of epileptic activity in mice after traumatic brain injury by using a drug that mimics the ...

Ketogenic diets are back in the news with claims they are a "cure-all". Research shows that in epilepsy not controlled by current treatment, around 50% of children and adults following ketogenic ...