Dietary Treatments for Epilepsy

The ketogenic diet is one of the four major treatments for epilepsy, along with antiseizure medications, neuromodulation, and surgery. Ketogenic diet therapy has been proven to be a safe and effective antiseizure regimen for a century. There are multiple methods to administer the diet and the initiation should be individualized for each patient. The diet has been shown to be an effective treatment of choice for Glut1 deficiency, pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, infantile spasms, and superrefractory status epilepticus among others. This review discusses the administration of ketogenic diet therapy and highlights its role for specific epilepsy syndromes.