How to Use Diet to Treat Epilepsy

  [scald=10016:sdl_editor_representation] Dietary therapy is an approach to helping control seizures, usually in conjunction with seizure medications.
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QUESTION Families of children with epilepsy now ask about the ketogenic diet at clinic visits. Is it effective and safe to use for treatment of epilepsy?ANSWER The ketogenic diet can be considered an option for children with intractable epilepsy who use ...

Dietary therapies represent a potentially valuable adjunct to other epilepsy treatments, such as anticonvulsant medications, epilepsy surgery, and vagus nerve stimulation. Although the ketogenic diet (high fat, adequate protein, low carbohydrate) is the ...

Regimens seem to cut down on seizures but are hard to stick to long-term, study shows
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WebMD explains the ketogenic diet and its role in eliminating or reducing epileptic seizures.
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WebMD explains the ketogenic diet and how it works to curb seizures in young children.
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