Dietary Hope for Epilepsy Sufferers

Health experts have found that a special diet treatment has dramatic benefits for epileptic children, ITV1's Tonight with Trevor McDonald programme reveals this evening [Monday] at 8pm. Preliminary results from researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital [GOSH] have shown 42 percent of epileptic children who were following a Ketogenic diet for three months to have a greater than 50 percent reduction in seizure frequency with 19 percent reporting a reduction in seizures of 75 percent or more.

Paediatric neurologist Dr Helen Cross of GOSH in London led the research. She tells Tonight: "Following these results, we hope the Ketogenic diet will be recognised as an established alternative treatment for any child with challenging and resistant epilepsy. If the diet was introduced more widely across the UK it could have huge benefits in the future by reducing the need for medications in children with difficult epilepsy.

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