Ketogenic Diet for Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
网页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 …
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 (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The ketogenic diet has been used to treat children with epilepsy for almost a century. Our center, which opened in 2010, is the first-ever clinic to offer ketogenic diet therapy specially designed for adults with epilepsy. Our regimen is a modification of the classic ketogenic diet, similar to the Atkins diet.
Ketogenic Diet for Epilepsy and Sample Menu - Verywell Health
网页2013年6月26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 for epilepsy: an overview of systematic review
网页2022年1月13日 · Classic Ketogenic diet (CKD), a strict low carbohydrate content (5–10% of total daily calorie intake, or 20–50 g per day1,2) formulation which increases ketone body concentrations, was first...
Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy - PubMed
网页2019年10月18日 · The data in this review contributes to a better understanding of the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet in the treatment of epilepsy and informs scientists, clinicians, and patients-as well as their families and caregivers-about the possibilities 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...
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 seizures and may have other positive effects.
The keto diet protects against epileptic seizures. Scientists are ...
网页2023年12月15日 · 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.