Resumen

VARCASIA MACHADO, Iris; LORENZO PEREZ, Enia  y  GARCIA ABREU, David. Ketogenic diet in the treatment of the refractory epilepsy in children. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.2, pp.373-381. ISSN 1727-8120.

A descriptive study with objective to characterize the ketogenic diet as alternative in the treatment of the refractory epilepsy in children for elevating their quality of life, with the consequent decreasing of its economic cost, was carried out. The catastrophic or refractory epilepsy is one health social problem that the pediatric patient suffers, generally in the first days of life, the hard control and with numerous crisis despite of the use of antiepileptic drugs in toxic doses, and include different syndromes and diseases with own characteristics. This diet offers one hope, and its solution represents a social value because the benefit overcomes the cost for those patients that resist the drug treatment.

Palabras clave : refractory epilepsy; ketogenic diet; quality of life; child.

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