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Use of the ketogenic diet in neonates and infants
Author(s) -
Rubenstein James E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
epilepsia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.687
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1528-1167
pISSN - 0013-9580
DOI - 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01829.x
Subject(s) - ketogenic diet , medicine , pediatrics , epilepsy , psychiatry
SummaryThe ketogenic diet (KD) is still viewed as virtually last‐line therapy in childhood epilepsies, and specifically as unsafe and difficult to initiate and maintain in neonates and infants. Information is presented to show that the KD is safe and efficacious in this population, and should be carefully studied to determine its real usefulness as first‐line or early therapy (one or fewer anticonvulsants) in the catastrophic epilepsies of infancy.