I would like to tell the parents who are planning to go on a ketogenic diet or are on a ketogenic diet that is not working: I personally feel that the first step in preparing for a ketogenic diet should be to prepare mentally. The ketogenic diet is not something that can be cured by just a handful of people. With the ketogenic diet, some people do have complete control within the first week of use and never have an attack again. But for most children, this is a minority. Most will see good results for several months or even a year or more. This is all possible, so when we choose a ketogenic diet, we have to be prepared to fight a constant battle. Definitely not like with medication, a little more than a month, after increasing the maximum amount does not work, then change one. Now the key question is, we are not controlled with drugs, if not use ketogenic what else can be used? Add to the dose, combined use, herbs, surgery non-stop experimentation? Ketogenic diet therapy, is the child can not adhere to it? I see so many parents, after using it for a while, say: Our kid couldn’t stick to it, so we stopped the ketogenic. Looking back at the whole thing, was it because the child couldn’t stick to it? No, most of the time it’s not the kids who can’t stick with it. The child has only been in the world for a short time, where he has the right to choose what to use, it is entirely up to us as parents to give him what to use. Of course, there are very few children who cannot adapt to the ketogenic diet, which is objective, but most parents who stop using it are just looking for one reason or another to stop. Is the ketogenic diet a cruel treatment, an extermination of humanity? Is that really true? In the ketogenic QQ group, there are many people who talk about the cruelty of ketogenic, which basically means that children can’t just eat anymore. It’s this statement that gets to the heart of the matter. Our parents, have memories of hunger, we do not, but our generation, for sure, has memories of other children having delicious snacks, and we did not, we could only look at the good things in the kiosk, we could only watch other children eat. We also managed to keep our mouths shut for one word: poverty. We couldn’t afford those things at that time, we simply didn’t have extra money at home, and this memory was bad for us growing up. Well, now to those of us who also have children of our own, we may not be very rich, but we certainly have enough money to have enough snacks for our own children to eat any kind of snacks in the supermarket. What we didn’t enjoy back then, our childhood desire to eat is being realized in our next generation. But now all of a sudden we are asked to control our own children’s mouths again. The key problem now is that we have the money to afford snacks, so we start to blame ourselves and feel sorry for our own children as the memories of our childhood are happening to them again. The idea of giving up the ketogenic diet began to have, began to give themselves all kinds of reasons, of course the reason is the best to find. Children are incapable people, and anything he does is up to us as parents to make decisions and choices. You can choose to use the ketogenic diet, or you can choose to continue to watch the child convulsions, the child is their own, their own decision is it. The only thing is that before making a decision, please do not use the name of the child to say this matter, you do things are your own thinking, is your own independent decision, and the child does not have much to do with. Children do not choose what to use or not to use, everything is your own choice. This is how you start a ketogenic diet: first, you have some relevant tests, mainly urinary system and liver and kidney function tests. Then the ketogenic diet can be started. These are ordinary examinations, which are harmless to children, and do not take long, just one day. There are some children who are not allowed to use ketogenic diet because of their body metabolism, but most of them can use it. Deji Hospital has special finished products for ketogenic diet: ketogenic milk, cookies, canned cucumber fish, canned mushroom slider chicken, noodles, etc. Giving children this milk directly is the start of ketogenic. Calculate how many calories you should eat based on the child’s weight, and then calculate how much milk you can drink in a day. There is no limit to the amount of water the child can drink during this period, but there is a limit to the amount of water the child can drink if the child is finely regulated later. In the hospital, blood ketones and blood glucose were measured every day, and vital signs were observed. Then you can give your child ketogenic products at home or make ketogenic meals for your child, and that’s all there is to the ketogenic diet. The next thing you can do is wait for a miracle to land on our heads. I just want to tell you that since you have chosen the ketogenic diet, you have to stick to it! Miracles are bound to happen! Postscript: This great mother, in simple and concise words, told all kinds of reasons for the ketogenic diet for epilepsy, reluctance to choose, inability to adhere to it, shirking responsibility, etc. I myself am a mother and know that what we give to our children is given to the best of our ability, because most families lack effective knowledge of epilepsy as a disease, and everywhere there is the guise of a radical cure for epilepsy, latching onto the families’ The psychology of eagerness to save and cure has led many families to choose blindly to the point of being deceived. There are also families who want to take one step towards success and see the ketogenic diet as a myth, hating to use the immediate symptom news that the child has progressed in all kinds of development, often the treatment is not achieved, medicine can solve many problems, but there are also many difficult problems that cannot be solved. Some families often bargain with me on the ketogenic diet treatment, always asking Dr. Wang Mann if I can add some fruits, add some walnuts, add some this, add some that, the child is born with epilepsy is very poor, and this can not eat, and that can not eat, and now the seizures are not yet under control, I really do not know if I should insist, or should give up. Dear family members, I understand your many thoughts, but if you add too many extra things to the treatment, the effect will definitely be greatly reduced. Doctors want your child to be completely healthy as much as your family does. There must be something special about the ketogenic diet that can control intractable epilepsy that even medication can’t help, and that special something is the strict limitation and precise calculation, plus the fine adjustment by the nutritionist and the close cooperation between the family and the child. In the clinic we have seen too many such children, because of improper treatment, seizures are not effectively controlled, and the resulting regression of intelligence, loss of self-care ability, in contrast to well-controlled children can go to school, work, marry and have children like normal people are not delayed. The reason why we waver in life is because we have a variety of choices, when you have only one choice backwater success rate is often higher. Go for it, folks! There is no treatment like the ketogenic diet. Your child’s treatment is in your own hands, and your precise food weighing and preparation is an effective weapon to free your child from the torment of epilepsy.