New Ways to Stop Seizures: Medicine, Surgery, and Technology
Epilepsy is a brain condition that causes repeated seizures, and doctors now have many more ways to help people control them. This review looked at advances …
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How a Special Diet May Help Control Seizures in the Brain
Researchers discovered that a ketogenic diet—which is very low in carbohydrates and high in fats—might help reduce epileptic seizures by changing how certain …
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 MoreNew Treatment Combo Helps Kids With Hard-to-Control Seizures
Researchers tested three different treatments for children whose seizures don't respond well to regular medicines. One group tried a special high-fat, low-carb …
Read MoreMixing Special Brain-Protecting Diets Works for Tube-Fed Children
Researchers studied children with serious brain conditions who receive food through feeding tubes. These children were following a special high-fat, low-carb …
Read MoreSpecial Diet Helps Kids With Seizures Stop Taking Some Medicines
Researchers studied whether a special high-fat, low-carb diet called the ketogenic diet could help children with epilepsy reduce or stop taking seizure …
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 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 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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