Nervous System - Pediatric/Paediatric Epilepsy: Ketogenic Diet
Recommendations and Evidence
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