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  • Title: [Therapeutic approach to epilepsy from the nutritional view: current status of dietary treatment].
    Author: Vicente-Hernández M, Garcia-Garcia P, Gil-Nagel A, Lopez-Munoz F, Alamo C.
    Journal: Neurologia; 2007 Oct; 22(8):517-25. PubMed ID: 17641989.
    Abstract:
    Approximately 20%-30% of epilepsy patient do not respond adequately to drug treatment. In this population, a dietary treatment has been posed as a therapeutic alternative or coadjuvant tool. This present work has aimed to carry out a review on the dietary alternatives currently available to treat epilepsy (ketogenic diet, Atkins' diet, etc.). The ketogenic diet has been used and studied the most in this neurological disorder. That is why it is also the one that has undergone the greatest change. Furthermore, this diet has caused the most controversy about its action mechanism, efficacy and adverse effects as well as about what would be the best protocol to carry it out. Many observational studies and reviews on this subject that support the beneficial effect of the ketogenic diet have been conducted. However, controlled, randomized clinical trials with larger population samples are needed to confirm these results in order to achieve an optimum and individualized dietary treatment in refractory epilepsy.
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