| Ketogenic Diet for Patients with Resistant Seizures |
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Sang Hyeup Kim1, In Soon Ihm2 |
1Departement of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University
2Head Dietitian, Department of Nutrition, Seoul National University Hospital |
| 難治經擊患者의 Ketone 食簡療法 |
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金相協1, 任 仁 順2 |
1서울大學校 醫科大學 小兒科
2서울大學校 醫科大學 附屬病院 榮養室 |
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| Abstract |
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Ketogenic diet is no longer widely used, because it has various difficulties. But, it may be helpful for children who have frequent resistant seizures which are not controlled by one or more of the anticonvulsant drugs. In such instances the ketogenic diet may often be used in conjunction with them. Still, one who have interest to manage childhood seizures, should not forget its possibilities when drugs fail. We presented methods of calculation, physician’s guide for planning, ketogenic diet menu of examples for children from 2 to 15 years old in korea. Brief review and discussion were made mainly on effect and mechanism of ketogenic diet.
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