Special Diet Helps Boy With Hard-to-Treat Seizures
Researchers discovered that a special high-fat, low-carb diet called the ketogenic diet may help children with a rare genetic form of epilepsy that doesn't …
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Rare Gene Changes Linked to Severe Seizures in Babies
Researchers studied 18 babies with a serious seizure condition called infantile epileptic spasms syndrome caused by changes in mitochondrial genes—the parts of …
Read MoreSpecial Diet May Help Kids with Hard-to-Treat Seizures
Researchers looked at nine studies to see if a high-fat, low-carb diet called the ketogenic diet could help children whose seizures don't respond to regular …
Read MoreHow a High-Fat Diet May Help Control Seizures
Researchers studied how a ketogenic diet (a diet very high in fat and very low in carbs) affects brain chemicals in rats. They found that this diet changed the …
Read MoreSpecial Diets That Help Kids With Hard-to-Treat Seizures
Doctors sometimes use special high-fat diets called ketogenic diets to help children whose seizures don't respond to regular medicines. Experts from around the …
Read MoreHow a Special High-Fat Diet May Help Babies With Severe Seizures
Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome is a serious seizure condition that affects babies and doesn't respond to standard medications in about half of cases. …
Read MoreNew Tool Helps People Understand the Ketogenic Diet for Epilepsy
Researchers created a new questionnaire called iKETO-KNOW to help patients and caregivers understand the ketogenic diet, a special eating plan used to treat …
Read MoreSpecial Diets Help Kids With Hard-to-Treat Seizures
Researchers looked at studies about using special diets to help people whose seizures don't respond to medicine. They found that ketogenic diets (very low …
Read MoreNew Hope for Rare Seizure Disorder: Scientists Find Better Treatment
Researchers discovered a promising new approach to treat a rare genetic seizure disorder called pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy (PDE). Currently, patients with …
Read MoreWhy Some Seizures Don't Respond to Medicine: A Cellular Power Problem
About one-third of people with epilepsy don't respond well to current medications, making their condition very difficult to treat. Scientists are discovering …
Read MoreSpecial Ketogenic Formula Helps Kids and Adults Control Severe Epilepsy
Researchers reviewed 25 years of studies on a special ketogenic formula called KetoCal that helps people with hard-to-treat epilepsy. This high-fat, low-carb …
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