Enteral and Parenteral Applications of Ketogenic Diet Therapy

Ketogenic diet in cancer therapy

Implementation of Ketogenic Diet Therapy in Refractory Epilepsies

The Ketogenic Diet (KD) has been used in treatment of epilepsy in mainland China since 2004. Clinical indications of KD include: Glucose Transporter Type 1 (GLUT-1) deficiency, Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency (PDHD, myoclonus-astatic epilepsy (Doose syndrome), tuberous sclerosis complicated with or without epilepsy, Rett syndrome, Dravet syndrome, infantile spasms, and Landau-Kleffner syndrom...

Diet formulation and choice of enteral diet.

Once it has been decided to provide nutritional support via the enteral route the best formulation to meet the nutritional needs of the individual patient must be selected. A large number of enteral diets are now commercially available, and Table 1 summarises the different categories available. Until recently, controversy existed as to whether enteral feeds formulated and prepared in the hospit...

parenteral-enteral versus enteral nutrition on calorie , protein intake and nitrogen metabolism of head -injured patients

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Iodine in enteral and parenteral nutrition.

Iodine deficiency (ID) has multiple adverse effects on growth and development due to inadequate thyroid hormone production. Methods for assessment of iodine nutrition in individuals include the urinary iodine concentration (UI), thyroid size and thyroid function tests. The UI measured in several repeat 24-h urine samples can detect inadequate iodine intake in individuals receiving enteral or pa...