High-fat ketogenic diet effectively treats persistent childhood seizures

Monday, May 17, 2010 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

The high-fat ketogenic diet can dramatically reduce or completely eliminate debilitating seizures in most children with infantile spasms, whose seizures persist despite medication, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study published online April 30 in the journal Epilepsia.

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