J Korean Pediatr Soc.  1978 Aug;21(8):579-586.

Ketogenic Diet Trial for The Treatment of Minor Motor Seizures

• Suck SP
• Lee JG
• Kem SH
• Choe HW

Abstract

A 3-years-old girl, diagnosed as infantile spasm and 5-years-old boy, diagnosed as akinetic seizure were subjected to ketogenic diet trial because of their poor responses anticonyulsant treatment After adding ketogenic diet trial, in the former infantile spasm case, her seizures were controlled satisfactorily and in the latter akinetic seizure case, the frequency of seizures decreasd fairly. It seemed to be beneficial to add kotogenic diet the anticonvulsant therapy for the treatment of minor motor seizure children. We report these results with some discussion and a brief review of related literature

MeSH Terms

Child
Diet
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Ketogenic Diet*
Male
Seizures*
Spasms, Infantile