Low-glycemic-index treatment: A liberalized ketogenic diet for treatment of intractable epilepsy
- 13 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 65 (11), 1810-1812
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000187071.24292.9e
Abstract
The ketogenic diet is often effective for intractable epilepsy, but many patients have trouble complying with the strict regimen. The authors tested an alternative diet regimen, a low-glycemic-index treatment, with more liberal total carbohydrate intake but restricted to foods that produce relatively little increase in blood glucose (glycemic index < 50). Ten of 20 patients treated with this regimen experienced a greater than 90% reduction in seizure frequency.Keywords
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