how to cite this article: ghazavi a, tonekaboni sh, karimzadeh p, nikibakhsh aa, khajeh a, fayyazi a. the ketogenic and atkins diets effect on intractable epilepsy: a comparison. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 12-17. abstract objective intractable epilepsy is a major difficulty in child neurology, because the numbers of drugs that are available for treatment are limited and new treatmen...

OBJECTIVE Intractable epilepsy is a major difficulty in child neurology, because the numbers of drugs that are available for treatment are limited and new treatments such as diets must be tried. Now there are some diets available for treating patients with intractable epilepsy. The oldest diet is the classic ketogenic diet and one of the newest diets is the modified Atkins diet. Patients have a...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a medium-chain triglyceride ketogenic diet on patients with drug-resistant epilepsy over a period of 1 year and 8 months. Methods: Patients with refractory epilepsy on a medium-chain triglyceride ketogenic diet were prospectively enrolled. Their clinical condition and the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet were followed-up every month fo...

objective the ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low carbohydrate, adequate protein diet,developed in the 1920s for the management of intractable seizure disorders in children. to evaluate efficacy and tolerability of the classic  ketogenic diet, we analyzed records of the children started on the diet from 1999 to 2006 at the mofid children's hospital.materials & methods   the subjects were 87 child...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Despite the successful use of a ketogenic diet in pediatric epilepsy, its application in adults has been limited. The aim of this meta-analysis was to summarize the findings of relevant published studies in order to identify the efficacy of and compliance with a ketogenic diet and its main subtypes (i.e., classic ketogenic diet and modified Atkins diet) in adults with int...

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...

objective to determine the role of ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children. materials & methods sixty six consecutive children (1-16 years old) with intractable epilepsy whose seizure were not neurodegenerative nor febrile in origin were recruited. they received the ketogenic diet and we evaluated its effect on seizure frequency for 3 months. all these children had m...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the outcome of ketogenic diets (KDs) in patients with glucose transport type 1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1DS) in Japan. METHODS A nationwide survey for GLUT1DS was conducted by sending questionnaires to board-certified pediatric neurologists nationwide to obtain clinical and laboratory data. RESULTS Among 39 patients whose diagnosis was confirmed molecularly or by the ...

The ketogenic diet has been used in the treatment of intractable childhood epilepsy since the 1920s. A systematic review of the efficacy, adverse reactions, and costs associated with using the diet was performed. PubMed and Ovid searches were performed using the keywords epilepsy/therapy, dietary therapy, ketogenic diet, adverse events, and costs. Cochrane library was searched. Bibliographies o...