All issues > Volume 21(8); 1978

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1978;21(8):579-586. Published online August 31, 1978.

Ketogenic Diet Trial for The Treatment of Minor Motor Seizures.

Sang Pok Suck, Jong Guk Lee, Sang Hyeup Kem, Hahn Woong Choe

¹Department of pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital, Korea.

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

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