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.

One hour after consumption of a ketogenic breakfast meal, breath acetone increased significantly in epilepsy and healthy controls (p < 0.05), but not in children on a ketogenic diet.

The ketogenic diet is a special diet designed to help children with epilepsy that fails to respond adequately to routine anti-epileptic medications. A typical ketogenic diet is high in fat and low ...

The ketogenic diet, or keto diet, is a medical or therapeutic diet designed to help manage or treat a medical condition. The keto diet is suggested for children with epilepsy that continues ...

A study in Cell Discovery shows the ketogenic diet increases brain GABA levels and the GABA/glutamate ratio through β-hydroxybutyric acid, offering a potential mechanism for its effectiveness in ...

Intractable epilepsy – of which Lennox-Gastaut is a prime example – refers to a type of epilepsy that doesn't respond to anti-epilepsy medication. In children who suffer from Lennox-Gastaut epilepsy, ...

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 ...

Post-traumatic epilepsy develops within three years of a traumatic brain injury in about 1 out of 10 people. In mice, a drug that mimics the metabolic effects of the ketogenic diet was used to ...

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 ...