Nervous System - Pediatric/Paediatric Epilepsy: Ketogenic Diet
Nutrition Care Process (Toolkits)
Last Updated: 2023-10-11
Target Group: All children(0-12 yr.), Youth(13-17 yr.)
Description and Key Nutrition Issues
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures (1). A seizure is an abnormal electrical discharge in the brain that temporarily interrupts normal brain activity. The classic and medium chain triglyceride (MCT) ketogenic diets (KDs) are non-pharmacologic nutrition medical treatments used for medication-resistant epilepsy (intractable epilepsy (2). More recently, the low glycemic index treatment (LGIT) and modified Atkins diet (MAD) have been