Experts: Ketogenic diet therapy is a boon for children with drug-incurable epilepsy.

What about children with incurable epilepsy who have taken medication that is out of control and cannot be operated on? Reporter 18 was informed that Fudan University Affiliated Paediatric Hospital Epilepsy Center multidisciplinary experts through ketogenic
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professor Zhou Shuizhen, deputy head of the neurology group of the Chinese Medical Association, director of the China Anti-Epileptic Association and director of the Department of Neurology at Fudan University's affiliated pediatric hospital, told reporters that 75% of patients with refractic epilepsy can reduce seizures by more than 50% through ketogenic diet therapy, 20-25% of patients can achieve seizures without seizures, and some patients can successfully stop all anti-epileptic drugs.
, ketogenic diet therapy is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat, appropriate protein diet. Zhou Shuizhen said: "This is worth promoting the treatment of incurable epilepsy, but also for children with difficult epilepsy in children with new hope." It
understood that the department of neurology in pediatric hospitals has formed a multidisciplinary team of neurologists, specialist nurses and clinical dietitians (MDT) to carry out diet therapy for children with resolvable epilepsy. Zhou Shuizhen said that the ketogenic diet meal guidance, efficacy and safety follow-up, long-distance follow-up management needs the joint efforts of patient families and health care workers, need mutual support between patient families.
, hospitals have treated hundreds of children with resoic epilepsy through a ketogenic diet. On the same day, the hospital disclosed a number of cases, children have benefited from ketogenic diet treatment. In November 2015, a baby with a rare severe neuropsychicological disorder, Angel syndrome, came to the neurology unit. The angel baby is stunted, mentally retarded and has symptoms such as epilepsy. Parents, on the advice of Professor Li Shuizhen, tried to treat their babies with a ketogenic diet, after two changes in the proportion of ketogenic diet, the effect is very significant. The child's mother told reporters that today, the child in the school and outside the class performance is very good, and hope that more angel babies try ketogenic diet treatment.
Zhou Shuizhen pointed out that in the ketogenic diet treatment process, it is particularly important to find individualized diet matching programs. It is understood that Fudan University affiliated pediatric hospital took the lead in the development of ketogenic diet catering software platform. The expert says that ketogenic diet therapy requires more effort from parents than drugs: continuous learning, careful collection of information about their children, and good at summing up, and the summary of the daily information submitted to the doctor, so that the doctor can give an accurate adjustment plan. (Complete)