Ketogenic diet in childhood epilepsy: clinical algorithm in a tertiary care center

Childhood Autoimmune Hepatitis in Bahrain: a Tertiary Center Experience

Background: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) in childhood has variable modes of presentation, and the disease should be suspected and excluded in all children presenting with symptoms and signs of prolonged or severe acute liver disease. In AIH, the liver biopsy histopathology shows inflammation in addition to presence of serum autoimmune antibodies and increased levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG). Ob...

Ketogenic diet in the management of childhood epilepsy.

The ketogenic diet has been used for the treatment of epilepsy in children for almost 100 years. Originally, it was determined that individuals with seizures found benefit from starvation; subsequently a diet was proposed which was high in fat content, the breakdown of fat for energy producing ketones and therefore mimicking starvation(1). This was subsequently found to be effective in treating...

Practical Use of the Ketogenic Diet in Childhood Epilepsy

Efficiency of the ketogenic diet: treatment of refractory childhood epilepsy

This review reports on the past, current and potential future developments in aspects of the ketogenic diet in epilepsy treatment for children who have refractory epilepsy (uncontrolled seizures after having tried at least two anti-epileptic drugs). The ketogenic diet is based on putting the body into ketosis, so that is uses ketones rather than glucose for the energy in the brain. The diet com...

Childhood Absence Epilepsy Successfully Treated with the Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet

INTRODUCTION Childhood absence epilepsy is an epilepsy syndrome responding relatively well to the ketogenic diet with one-third of patients becoming seizure-free. Less restrictive variants of the classical ketogenic diet, however, have been shown to confer similar benefits. Beneficial effects of high fat, low-carbohydrate diets are often explained in evolutionary terms. However, the paleolithic...