Daily potassium citrate wards off kidney stones in seizure patients on high-fat diet

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 18:42 in Health & Medicine

Children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can prevent the excruciatingly painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they start the diet, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center. A report on the work is published in the August issue of Pediatrics.

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