The ketogenic diet is well established as an effective treatment for patients with refractory epilepsy, and although studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society confirm its value for both children and adults, others raise important concerns.
Researchers from the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC), for example, reported that adhering to a ketogenic diet (KGD) reduced the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and decreased the length of epilepsy-related hospital stays in children with pharmacologically refractory epilepsy.
