Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2015;30(12):888-891

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-428X.2015.12.003

Update on ketogenic diet therapies in epilepsy

Jianxiang LIAO ; Ruidong CHEN

Keywords

Ketogenic diet; Intractable epilepsy; Structural epilepsy

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Although the ketogenic diet(KD) has originally been used to treat epilepsies,plenty of evidence about the efficacy to intractable epilepsy has not accumulated until recently.These epilepsy or epilepsy syndrome include:Dravet syndrome,Doose syndrome,infantile spasms,Angelman syndrome with epilepsy,tuberous sclerosis complex and focal cerebral dysplasia or other structural epilepsy.It is worth paying more attention to the efficacy of KD on cognition,language development and behavior problems.