Can a ketogenic diet reduce seizures in people with epilepsy?

It’s National Doodle Day, when people get doodling to support the work of UK charity Epilepsy Action. So we thought we’d bring you some Cochrane evidence on whether a ketogenic diet can help people with epilepsy, in doodle form!

Ketogenic diet doodle

Doodles by:

Sarah & Holly at the UKCC

Link:

Levy RG, Cooper PN, Giri P, Pulman J. Ketogenic diet and other dietary treatments for epilepsy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD001903. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001903.pub2.

Cochrane summary http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001903/ketogenic-and-other-dietary-treatments-for-epilepsy

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