People with well controlled epilepsy may not be offered an annual review, according to the updated guidelines for epilepsy healthcare professionals from The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE now recommends that regular reviews (at least once a year) a should be offered to certain groups of people with epilepsy, according to […]
— Quality of life, disability showed improvements in phase II study A ketogenic diet was safe, tolerable, and provided clinical benefits to people with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), a phase II study found. Relapsing MS patients enrolled in the 6-month prospective ketogenic intervention had significant reductions in fat mass and showed a nearly 50% decline in fatigue […]
Anticonvulsants are the primary treatment for epilepsy and are effective in controlling seizures in most patients. However, in about one third of patients, relapses do not resolve with medication and require non-pharmacological treatment. One of the traditional diets that allows you to implement this approach, since the beginning of the 20th century, is considered ketogenic. […]
The first clinical trial of a new dietary treatment for children and adults with severe forms of epilepsy, co-developed by UCL researchers and based on the ketogenic diet, has been successfully completed. For the study, published in Brain Communications, clinicians evaluated the use of K.Vita®, (also known as Betashot), an oral liquid dietary supplement developed by […]
n international panel of experts has published the first set of recommendations based on current clinical practices and scientific evidence for using ketogenic diet therapies (KDTs) in adults with drug-resistant epilepsy. Just as in children with epilepsy, KDTs can be safe and effective in adults with epilepsy but should only be undertaken with the support of […]
Trial compares major ketogenic diet therapy methods Three major methods of providing ketogenic diet therapy reduced seizures in children with drug-resistant epilepsy, the randomized DIET trial showed. Median reduction in seizure burden was similar with the ketogenic diet, the modified Atkins diet, and the low glycemic index therapy diet, though neither the modified Atkins nor low glycemic […]
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