High-fat ketogenic diet effectively treats persistent childhood seizures

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 15:00 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 Centre study published online April 30 in the journal Epilepsia...

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