Managing Keto Blog

A support blog for patients and caregivers using the medical ketogenic diet for seizures

 

We’ve partnered with ketogenic dietitians and families with ketogenic diet experience to create a trustworthy source of information, tips and resources that can help you along your ketogenic diet journey.

We want to help make managing the medical ketogenic diet as easy as possible and help give you or your loved one the best possible chance for success on the diet.

Please note: information presented in our blogs is for educational purposes only and is in no way intended to replace the care, advice, and medical supervision of your ketogenic diet team. Always consult your ketogenic diet healthcare team with questions you have and before you make any changes to your or your loved one’s diet or condition management.

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Preparing Families for a Ketogenic Diet Journey

The ketogenic diet is an option for managing drug-resistant epilepsy, and it often provides a liberating alternative for families struggling with heavy medication loads, side effects and persistent ...
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How Medical Ketogenic Diets for Epilepsy Differ from Keto Diets for Weight Loss?

The classic medical ketogenic diet for the management of intractable epilepsy (also called drug-resistant epilepsy) was created in the 1920s at the Mayo Clinic. It became popularized in ...
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Time Management Tips for Keto Moms & Dads

I have a daughter with a debilitating form of epilepsy and before starting on the ketogenic diet she had status seizures at least twice a week requiring emergency ...
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Enhancing the Medical Ketogenic Diet with MCT Oil

Medical ketogenic diets (MKD) have increased in popularity in recent years for its potential to help reduce seizures for those with drug-resistant epilepsy. There are several variations of ...
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Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) and Ketogenic Diets

If you are new to the ketogenic diet, you may be wondering about the term "MCT" you keep hearing about. MCT stands for medium chain triglyceride. Some of ...
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Ketogenic Ratios Explained

If your child's physician has recommended a ketogenic diet for epilepsy management, you likely have many questions, which may have led you to this post. As you collect information ...
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Ask A Keto Dietitian: Dravet Syndrome

Hello! My name is Robyn Blackford, and I am one of the ketogenic dietitians at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. I have been a full-time ketogenic dietitian in ...
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Sugar Alcohols: Are They Allowed on a Ketogenic Diet?

If you are following or considering a ketogenic diet or modified Atkins®* diet (MAD) for the management of intractable epilepsy, you may have heard talk about sugar alcohols ...
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7 Ideas for Making Halloween on a Medical Ketogenic Diet Not So Scary

It's that time of year again when it's getting colder outside, school is on a roll, and everything is hopefully going well in your keto world. Then you ...
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