I have a goddaughter now 14 years old who started with grand mal seizures at age 3. It’s heartbreaking to see how hard her parents looked for any solution, anything at all to help stabilize her. They became expert on foods that could possibly trigger her seizures.
She would go a few weeks without incident and her parents would express relief that maybe they found something in her diet to avoid or include. But the seizures always came back and sometimes more violently.
It’s a sad and frustrating situation to say the least.
My question is should I forward this article to the parents or is it likely they already know of this. And if this diet is known and has been around for awhile, what is unique about this article? It says only that the new study is the largest to date.
I would suggest, if they are interested, that they find someone expert in the diet and its use to guide them. It's fairly strict and carefully regulated and not just a matter of eating a lot of high-fat foods.
I think this article was referring to a particular type of seizures.
I would certainly ask them if they’ve contact Hopkins. The diet is not without its detractors. It’s very demanding — we measured everything my child ate on a gram scale — and it keeps the patient on the edge of hypoglycemia. And the import of this study is the larger numbers and the larger proportion of good results.