Nutricia Paediatric Nutrition and Allergy Study Day | Event Report
Updates from the World of Paediatric Nutrition and Allergy
Zoe Connor, Freelance Dietitian
Introduction On a beautifully sunny Wednesday in September, dietitians, specialist nurses, paediatricians and GPs gathered at the Royal College of Physicians in central London for the 11th Annual Nutricia Paediatric Nutrition and Allergy Study
Day.The event boasted an extensive range of lectures from national and international experts, and a lunchtime appearance from ‘Wallace and Grommit’.
Emerging evidence for widening the scope of the use of ketogenic diets: St Georges Hospital Dietitian Nicole Dos Santos presented a comprehensive review of the use of ketogenic diets. She highlighted the randomised controlled trial published by the Institute of Child Health in 2008 – the first class 1 evidence around this dietary approach to intractable epilepsy.1
Encouragingly, this
study found the diet’s use comparable to anti-epileptic drugs in its efficacy, with a more than 50 per cent reduction in seizure frequency in 38 per cent of children, and a 90 per cent reduction in 7 per cent. There is still much to learn about the use of this
diet, including: the benefits of starting the diet earlier rather than later (it is currently only commenced after the failure of 2 or more drug treatments); its use in infants; its exact mechanism; the safe maximum length of dietary treatment; and clear documentation of its cost benefits.2
Demand for the diet continues to grow, and
there is emerging evidence for its use in 17 other conditions – including autism, Alzheimer’s, migraines, brain tumours and neurological disorders. With this diet requiring intensive dietetic input, it could be an exciting area for dietetic service development in the future.
Complete Nutrition Vol.10 No.6 December/January 2010/11
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