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Diet induced ketosis in epilepsy and anaesthesia
Author(s) -
HINTON W.,
SCHWARTZ RUBY H.,
LOACH A. B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1982.tb00991.x
Subject(s) - ketosis , medicine , ketogenic diet , anesthesia , anticonvulsant , inhalation , epilepsy , urine , endocrinology , diabetes mellitus , psychiatry
Summary Ketogenic diets have a high fat and low carbohydrate and low protein content to induce ketosis which is monitored by daily urine testing. Lapses in diet are frequently associated with loss of anticonvulsant control. There has, as yet, been no report of children maintained on a ketogenic diet subject to anaesthesia and surgery; this paper records the changes in metabolic variables observed in three patients undergoing simple inhalation anaesthetics for minor surgery.