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Dietary Treatment of Epilepsy: Practical Implementation of Ketogenic Therapy [2012]

1
Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet and Other Dietary Treatments
11
Epilepsy and Epileptic Seizures
19
Treatment Options in the Paediatric Epilepsy Clinic
24
Efficacy of Ketogenic Dietary Therapy: What is the Evidence?
34
The Biochemical Basis of Dietary Therapies for Neurological Disorders
45
Preparing for Dietary Treatment
58
The Challenge of Therapeutic Diets in Children with Pre‐Existing Feeding Proble
66
The Classical Ketogenic Diet
78
The Medium‐Chain Triglyceride Ketogenic Diet
89
The Modified Atkins Diet
100
The Low Glycaemic Index Treatment
109
Managing Dietary Treatment: Further Dietetic Issues
116
Managing Dietary Treatment: A Parent's Perspective
124
Enteral Feeding
131
Dietary Initiation
135
Ketone Monitoring and Management of Illness
142
Fine Tuning
149
Monitoring and Side Effects
159
Dietary Treatments and Bone Health
166
Carnitine
172
Switching or Discontinuing Dietary Treatment
179
Dietary Treatment of Epilepsy in Infants
189
Dietary Treatment of Epilepsy in Adults
198
Ketogenic Dietary Therapy in India
206
Ketogenic Dietary Therapy in East Asia
215
Ketogenic Dietary Therapy in Africa
220
Ketogenic Dietary Therapy in Neurometabolic Disease
225
Beyond Epilepsy: Ketogenic Diet Use in Other Disease States
232
Afterword
235
Index
334
Appendix
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Front Matter
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