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I recently read this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21Epilepsy-t.html?_r=1

Is that what you are doing?

It seems that it has some pretty specific guidelines as far as keeping the

body in ketosis in order to prevent the seizures. Very interesting!

I cannot comment much on GAPS, as our family hasn't fully implemented it

yet. Our health issues are milder and we're just slowly adjusting our diet.

A.

[Disarmed] [ ] Hello!

Hello! We soon will be starting the GAP diet still have lots to learn. I

have a 13 year old son that has seizures (the last almost 9 years) this year

has been the hardest yet. Long story. My son was very ill this summer from I

believe was aseptic meningitis caused by his seizure medicine. My son

couldn't hardly communicate and didn't even no his own name. He was given 3

IV antibodics while in the hospital and a week later his health even more

down hill. My son started having drop episodes...where he would just faint.

We broke a toilet and had many closes calls. My son would have a lot of

seizures in the morning..then he would go 7 hours seizure free then he would

have them close to 2 pm....4pm....6:30pm...some times even when he would be

eating. My son started on the Modified Adkins diet in April of this year he

went seizure free during the day the first time in 8 years but he still had

them allot of seizure activity at night so the doctor wanted to change his

medicine. I really was scared to and it was the biggest mistake I have made.

My son doesn't react well at all to any medicines at all. And since being on

the Modified Adkins diet...we really react violently to anything he is

allergic too. Three weeks ago we went off cream and butter and added

probodics and enzymes and he has had only a few episodes in 3 weeks. Nights

the seizures are still there but have gotten some better. I now think most

of seizures are caused by a leaky gut which is causing his food allergies.

Today he had 2 episodes, I now no he can't do any coconut flour...if he gets

any he will have a seizure within 2 1/2 hours. And he got into decaf

flavoured tea...and had a seizure with in minutes. I need to get started

quickly. I have started doing some broth. Any suggestions? Does anyone on

here have anyone with seizures? I know the GAP diet has been successful with

some cases of epilepsy. I really think if we can fix his gut we will fix the

seizures. My son started his seizures almost 9 years ago with a bad virus he

vomited in his sleep for 3 days he has never been the same. My son was a

very ill little guy and I believe he always had trouble with gluten. He has

been gluten free for at least 2 years. We only do stevia for sweetners. Eat

low carb, high good fat, moderate protein. He is very sensitive to lots of

things and developing food allergies it seems every day. We need to get

started soon.

Debbi

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