Epilepsy & the ketogenic diet.(Shorts)

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | November 1, 2003| | Copyright

Due to the effort of Hollywood director Jim Abrahams, the ketogenic diet has, once again, become an accepted therapy for pediatric epilepsy. In 1994, Jim's year-old-son Charlie began to have seizures, as many as 100 in a day. When the boy did not respond to medication, Jim began to search for alternatives. He came upon a book about "a diet that supposedly cured half of the epileptic kids who went on it." The ketogenic diet was developed at Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic in the 1920s. As more seizure medications became available in the 1940s and 1950s, its use waned.

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