Ketogenic diet therapy brings good news to children with dru

What about children with intractable epilepsy who can't be controlled and operated on by taking medicine? Multidisciplinary experts from Epilepsy Center of Pediatric Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, through ketogenic diet treatment, not only significantly improve the quality of life of children, but also reduce the medical and economic costs of patients'families.

Professor Zhou Shuizhen, deputy head of Neurology group of Chinese Society of Pediatrics, director of China Antiepilepsy Association and director of Neurology Department of Pediatric Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, told reporters that 75% of drug-refractory epilepsy patients can reduce their seizures by more than 50% through ketogenic diet treatment, 20-25% of them can achieve no seizures and some of them suffer from epilepsy. All antiepileptic drugs can be successfully discontinued.

It is reported that ketogenic diet therapy is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat, appropriate protein diet. Zhou Shuizhen said: "This is a treatment of intractable epilepsy worth promoting, but also for children with intractable epilepsy in China has brought new hope."

It is understood that the Department of Neurology of the Pediatric Hospital has established a multidisciplinary team of neurologists, specialist nurses and clinical nutritionists (MDT) to carry out ketogenic dietary therapy for children with intractable epilepsy. Zhou Shuizhen said that ketogenic diet guidance, efficacy and safety follow-up, long-term follow-up management need the joint efforts of patients'families and medical staff, and need the mutual support of patients' families.

So far, hundreds of children with refractory epilepsy have been treated by ketogenic diet. The hospital disclosed a number of cases on the same day, and the children benefited from ketogenic diet treatment. In November 2015, a baby with Angel syndrome, a rare serious neuropsychiatric disorder, came to the neurology ward. This angel baby is retarded, mentally retarded and accompanied by epilepsy and other symptoms. Parents try to give their babies ketogenic diet treatment on the advice of Professor Zhou Shuizhen. After two adjustments of ketogenic diet proportion, the effect is very significant. The mother told reporters that the children are doing very well in the classes both inside and outside the school, and she hopes that more angel babies will try ketogenic diet treatment.

Professor Zhou Shuizhen pointed out that in the process of ketogenic diet treatment, it is particularly important to find individualized dietary proportions. It is understood that the Pediatric Hospital affiliated to Fudan University took the lead in developing ketogenic dietary software platform. The expert said frankly that ketogenic diet therapy requires parents to pay more attention than drugs: continue learning, carefully collect information about children, and be good at summarizing, and submit the summary of daily information to doctors so that doctors can give accurate adjustments.