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

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 04:28 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 Centre...

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