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Ketogenic Diet
Sun, 11/10/2013 - 07:19Comments
Re: Ketogenic Diet
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Mon, 2013-11-11 - 04:08
Re: Ketogenic Diet
Submitted by jtklwalls on Mon, 2013-11-11 - 15:19
My daughter's seizures were not severe/often enough to consider ketogenic. However, she did Modified Adkins for a period of 8 months and we were able to bring the amount of medication down. We could never fully get rid of medicine but we were able to lower it and keep it at the lower level once we gradually introduced carbs back. For us, it was worth it but I know it would not work this way for others.
Those with feeding tubes they say have the easiest time with ketogenic diet. My daughter was 13 and modified was hard enough so I applaud any of those that are able to follow the seizure diets.
My daughter's seizures were not severe/often enough to consider ketogenic. However, she did Modified Adkins for a period of 8 months and we were able to bring the amount of medication down. We could never fully get rid of medicine but we were able to lower it and keep it at the lower level once we gradually introduced carbs back. For us, it was worth it but I know it would not work this way for others.
Those with feeding tubes they say have the easiest time with ketogenic diet. My daughter was 13 and modified was hard enough so I applaud any of those that are able to follow the seizure diets.
Re: Ketogenic Diet
Submitted by Nerak95 on Sun, 2013-11-10 - 22:39
The Ketogenic Diet needs to be monitored by a physician. The diet hasn't shown to be very effective in adults. The diet can be very difficult to follow because the rations have to be carefully measured out between proteins, carbohydrates and fats. There has been some studies done at Johns Hopkins about the modified Atkins Diet that has been shown to help some patients, but again, I believe that the success is noted more in children. The diet is often tried when medications have failed. My daughter was on it for 8 months when she was three years old but it only worked for about three weeks. It can be very effective but often is the case that the patient must be on it for a number of years. The traditional diet isn't very palatable but there's a Keto group out there that have created some recipes. Karen