Hello Rajneesh,
Glad to hear your daughter is responding well to the
Ketogenic diet. Ketogenic diet is usually offered to children with intractable epilepsy and whose seizures are not controlled with two or three antiepileptic medications. It is also useful in adults and effective in most types of seizures regardless of the age and cause of seizures.
Children on ketogenic diet is given Calcium,
Vit D3 supplement and multivitamin.
Potassium Citrate is given to reduce the risk of kidney stones.So Potrate MB6 can be continued although she has no past history of kidney stones.Good water intake also reduces risk of kidney stones further. Certain antiepileptic medications like Topiramate and Zonisamide are suspected to increase the risk of kidney stones when used along with the ketogenic diet ,although there is no evidence to prove the same.
Your doctor would also be monitoring your daughters height ,weight and other parameters like
complete blood count, fasting
lipid profile, carnitine levels, urinalysis, urine calcium, and urine creatinine periodically while on the ketogenic diet.
Like you said the diet can be difficult to stick to despite the significant benifits due to the side effects like diarrhea, constipation, nausea, vomiting, and exacerbation of gastroesophageal reflux which can be tackled with laxatives and other medications.
Some of the other problems may include altered lipid levels, hypoglycemia, hyperuricemia,
hypoproteinemia,
hypomagnesemia, hyponatremia, hepatitis,kidney stones,Osteopenia, osteoporosis etc. which can all be detected by periodic check up and treatment if they occur.
If there is good seizure control while on the ketogenic diet antiepiletic medications may be attempted to be tapered.Also children showing improvement with the diet is likely to have good outcomes even after stopping the ketogenic diet after achieving seizure free status.
Wishing your daughter a seizure free state soon...