Clinical Nutrition Research  2016;5(1):60-63

doi:10.7762/cnr.2016.5.1.60

Ketogenic Diet for Children with Epilepsy: A Practical Meal Plan in a Hospital.

Eunjoo LEE 1 ; Hoon Chul KANG ; Heung Dong KIM

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Keywords

Intractable epilepsy; Ketogenic diet; Modified Atkins diet; Low glycemic index treatment

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

A ketogenic diet (KD) is a dietary approach to treat intractable epilepsy. The KD begins with hospitalization and the child and their parents can adapt to the KD for 1-2 weeks. Recently, various type of dietary intervention such as the modified Atkins diet (MAD) and the low glycemic index treatment (LGIT) have been performed. Since 2010, we carried out the KD, MAD, and LGIT for total of 802 patients; 489 patients (61%) for the KD, 147 patients (18.3%) with the MAD, and 166 patients (20.7%) for the LGIT. In this report, application of these dietary practices in Severance Hospital is shared.