A newer horizon in non-pharmacological management of intractable epilepsy of childhood: the ketogenic diet

Authors

  • Ansh Chaudhary Department of Paediatrics, Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College and Research Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • Bhupendra Chaudhary Department of Neurology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20211447

Keywords:

Epilepsy, Seizure, Ketogenic diet, Dietary therapy, Intractable

Abstract

The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat, low carbohydrate and adequate protein diet that was formulated in the early 1920s as a treatment of intractable epilepsy, when only bromides and phenobarbitones were available. With the discovery of phenytoin in 1935 and other anticonvulsants in subsequent decades its popularity gradually waned off but recently KD has got a resurgence in the management of intractable epilepsy especially of childhood onset, despite the availability of increasing number of new Antiepileptic drugs and surgical techniques.

Author Biographies

Ansh Chaudhary, Department of Paediatrics, Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College and Research Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Post Graduate Department of Pediatrics, Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College and Research Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Bhupendra Chaudhary, Department of Neurology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

Principal Consultant and Head, Department of Neurology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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2021-04-27

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