The ketogenic diet and epilepsy

[Guest guest]

We used this diet for about a year. There is a good little summary in

paperback by Freeman and Millicent called 'The Epilepsy Diet

Treatment.' Hopkin's in land has been a big proponent of it

all through the years. It did work for seizure control but was soooo

restrictive-it makes gfcfsf,scd,lod look enticing. She was able to

taper off her seizure medication on it. We did see self injury and

beginning of a tourette's like behavior - both new to her. Both of

these resolved when the diet was discontinued. This was aprox 10y ago

and before I was able to find anyone to do any testing[EFA, Amino acids

etc]. I was not attentive to what kinds of fat I was using and had no

clue what my daughter's needs were. She still does much better eating a

higher fat pattern but that 80-90% was no fun!