Childhood Epilepsy

Seizure frequency dropped to approximately 3 per week within the first week of dietary intervention. The child remained seizure-free for several years following dietary intervention. Pharmaceutical medications may prove both ineffective and dangerous for some children with epilepsy. This case was a documented real event from the 1990s that was later depicted in the film 'First Do No Harm' starring Meryl Streep. The child in this case experienced 10 to 11 seizures per day, representing a severe epilepsy burden. A seven-year-old child can develop epilepsy requiring hospitalization and pharmaceutical management. High seizure burden in children carries a poor prognosis for cognitive development, including predicted intellectual disability.