Special Diet Can Ease Epileptic Seizures in Kids (HealthDay)- About: News

The trial is the first randomized controlled study to confirm that the ketogenic diet — widely used since the 1920s — is effective against epilepsy, the British researchers said. University College London study included 145 children, aged 2 to 16, who suffered seizures at least once a day or more than seven seizures per week. Complete data was obtained from 54 children in the diet group and 49 children in the control group. The overall number of seizures in the diet group declined by more than 38 percent, while seizures in the control group increased by 36. The study found that 28 of the 54 children who completed three months in the diet group had a greater than 50 percent reduction in seizures, compared to four of 49 children in the control group. read more

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