Benefits Of The Keto Diet When It “Doesn't Work"?! - Maria Gogou

Children may benefit from being weaned off of anti-seizure medications when they are on the ketogenic diet. Plus, find out how the ketogenic diet can significantly benefit children with epilepsy - even when it doesn’t control their seizures! Paediatric neurologist Maria Gogou discusses her work in managing rare and complex epilepsies in children.
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Paper: “Antiseizure medication reduction and withdrawal in children with drug-resistant epilepsy after starting the ketogenic diet” 👇
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Chapters 📖
00:00 Intro and meet Maria
02:45 Ketogenic diet impacts on child Quality of Life
04:19 Study: weaning children off of anti-seizure medications after starting them on the ketogenic diet
07:13 Positively changing clinical practice regarding the ketogenic diet
08:18 Benefits of the ketogenic diet - beyond seizure control
09:51 Impacts of fragmented care
10:50 Side-effects of medications, trust between parties, and the importance of educating patients and carers
12:01 Torie's personal insight as a child with epilepsy and "accepting awfulness"
13:34 Read the paper “Anti-seizure medication reduction and withdrawal in children with drug-resistant epilepsy after starting the ketogenic diet”
13:50 Conclusion & thanks
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