doctors say that the kenogenic diet is last resort for a child my daughter has absent seizures and i was interested if that is right for her? She just switched meds. But i have heard great results from the kenogenic diet! she still has many seizures thoughout the day! where do i go to find out if she is a candicate?
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Ketogenic Diet First Choice!
I have no personal experience with the ketogenic diet, but from what we have researched, I have to say that if I were a parent of a child with epilepsy, I would use the diet as a first resort, not a last resort.
Of course, I try to use food as medicine for every disease, so this fits nicely with my personal take on health, but I think it also makes sense. If you have switched meds it's because the first meds didn't work. Once the first med fails, the chances of success with the other meds goes down to 15%.
Research shows that there is at least a 33% success rate with the diet, and that's a total healing rate, no more meds. Another 33% receive a great reduction in number of seizures. So just on the basis of numbers, it makes sense to try the diet.
This is just my two cents and again, I have no personal experience in this. If someone else has experience to the contrary, please let me know.
absence seizures
Hi -
just a quick note - we went to a keto clinic at our Children's hospital and the neuro there said that the keto diet worked well for every type of sz except for absence ones, and that the diet could aggravate that seizures type. We have our daughter on the diet and it works well for controlling her grand mal and partial szs but we still notice the absence ones.
I hope this helps you.