Ketogenic diet in epileptic children: clinical and laboratory assessment.

Epilepsy is the most frequent neurological pathology in children, and in some cases it has no adequate control with drug treatments. The improvement of epilepsy control observed during starvation periods triggered the development of a diet that simulates its alterations, allowing its use to treat difficult to control epileptic patients. Many researchers have been demonstrating the efficacy of the ketogenic diet (KD) on controlling epileptic children. The mechanisms involved still remain unknown, though.