Ketogenic Diet OK at Home for Epileptic Kids
A ketogenic diet that burns fat rather than sugar for energy may be safe to start outside a hospital setting for children with difficult-to-treat epilepsy, according to a new study.
Researchers say the ketogenic diet has been used in the treatment of epilepsy for more than 80 years, but it wasn’t clear whether starting the diet as a part of an outpatient treatment program was safe or practical for children with the disease.
The ketogenic diet is very high in fats and low in carbohydrates and mimics the effects of starvation. But the diet must be rigidly controlled when used in epilepsy treatment because any deviation may trigger a seizure.
In this study, researchers compared the effectiveness and safety of the ketogenic diet in a group of 54 children with epilepsy who went through the initiation phase of the diet either in or outside a hospital.
Researchers found no evidence that starting the ketogenic diet as an inpatient provided any additional benefits.
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