Intravenous ketogenic diet: guidelines for ketogenic parenteral therapy

Ketogenic diet in cancer therapy

Ketogenic diet guidelines for infants with refractory epilepsy.

BACKGROUND The ketogenic diet (KD) is an established, effective non-pharmacologic treatment for drug resistant childhood epilepsy. For a long time, the KD was not recommended for use in infancy (under the age of 2 years) because this is such a crucial period in development and the perceived high risk of nutritional inadequacies. Indeed, infants are a vulnerable population with specific nutritio...

Ketogenic diet for epilepsy treatment.

The ketogenic diet (KD), a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and adequate-protein diet is an established, effective nonpharmacologic treatment option for intractable childhood epilepsy. The KD was developed in 1921 and even though it has been increasingly used worldwide in the past decade, many neurologists are not familiar with this therapeutic approach. In the past few years, alternative and more f...

The Ketogenic Diet

Ketogenic diet therapy for epilepsy during pregnancy: A case series

PURPOSE Evaluation of ketogenic diet (KD) therapies for seizure control during pregnancy when safety and appropriate management become considerations. Until now, no information has been available on seizure reduction and human pregnancy related outcomes in women treated with KD therapies. METHOD We describe two cases of pregnant women with epilepsy treated with KD therapy either as monotherap...