Volume : IX, Issue : VII, July - 2019

ROLE OF KETOGENIC DIET AND MODIFIED ATKINS DIET IN REFRACTORY SEIZURE DISORDER– A COMPARISION

Dr Spandana Devi Tagaram, Dr Pramod Jog, Dr. S. R. Agarkhedkar

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Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the ain due to abnormal excitability of neurons. It affects people of all ages, accounting for 1% global disease burden. Most of the Epileptic seizures are usually controlled by antiepileptic drugs, but 30% – 40% of people are resistant to the medications. Such type of patients are considered to have ‘Refractory seizure disorder’. The drug–resistant seizure disorder is defined as ‘failure of sufficient attempts of two tolerated, properly selected and used antiepileptic drug schedules (as monotherapy or in combination) to attain persistent seizure freedom’. Pharmaco–resistance in epileptic seizure could occur from a range of conditions, such as noncompliance, non–epileptic seizures, inappropriate use of medication, misdiagnosis of the seizure type or epilepsy syndrome and lifestyle issues. For patients who had drug resistance epileptic seizure, alternative treatments like dietary therapy in the form of Ketogenic diet and Modified Atkins diet were considered. The present comparative study aimed at studying the efficacy of dietary therapy (both ketogenic diet and modified Atkins diet) in seizure reduction

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ROLE OF KETOGENIC DIET AND MODIFIED ATKINS DIET IN REFRACTORY SEIZURE DISORDER- A COMPARISION, DR SPANDANA DEVI TAGARAM, DR PRAMOD JOG, DR.S.R.AGARKHEDKAR INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-7 | July-2019

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