Ketogenic food pyramid for patients with refractory epilepsy: From theory to clinical practice
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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...
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The ketogenic diet, a non-drug treatment with proven effectiveness, has been the most commonly used therapy in the past decade for the management of refractory epilepsy in the pediatric population. Compared to adding a new drug to a pre-existing treatment, the ketogenic diet is highly effective and reduces the number of seizures by 50-90% in approximately 45-60% of children after six months of ...
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OBJECTIVES To systematically review and synthesize the available evidence on the efficacy of the ketogenic diet in reducing seizure frequency for children with refractory epilepsy. DATA SOURCES Medline searches were performed using the keywords epilepsy/therapy, dietary therapy, and epilepsy, and the text word ketogenic diet. The Cochrane Library of clinical trials was searched using the term...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista de Nutrição
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1415-5273
DOI: 10.1590/1678-98652017000100010